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AVN.COM | 9.23 | EDITOR’S NOTE
EDITOR’S NOTE
Kenzie Taylor did hospice nursing before adult, working 70- to 80-hour weeks during a grueling period in her life.
A former LPN—or licensed practical nurse—Taylor tells me she would sometimes fall asleep on the road due to exhaustion.
“There were times when I would wake up and I would be driving in a ditch,” she says. “And it was just very scary. There was one day where something just clicked and I was like, this just isn’t for me.”
Taylor did her best to detach herself emotionally from patients, but it usually didn’t work.
“It was very hard for me because a lot of them would be by themselves and their family just didn’t care,” Kenzie says. “And they would literally be dying by themselves.
“So I’d sit there with them and read books with them or do crossword puzzles, watch shows with them, just different things.
“Hold their hand.”
So many of her patients passed while she was there.
“I’ve been there for a lot of people when they took their last breaths,” Kenzie says.
Our September cover girl would go on to find work as a veterinary technician, stripper
and as a server and bartender at Buffalo Wild Wings.
One night she was dancing at The Doll House gentlemen’s club in Tampa, Fla., when a
feature entertainer who was an adult star came in.
“And I see her and maybe she was intoxicated at the time but she just looked very happy
and free,” Kenzie says. “So I’m at this club and I notice how free and open this woman is. That’s how I want to feel. That is what I want.
“I want to be happy like that about my work and feel free. I’ve never felt free in my life.”
DAN MILLER
Editor-in-Chief