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Ground Zero Strippers Weigh In On 'Ground Zero Mosque' Debate

Strippers Weigh In On 'Ground Zero Mosque' Debate
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Crime and Weird News editor, The Huffington Post

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After the World Trade Center towers fell, a stripper named Chris went to volunteer in the recovery effort for the Red Cross. Nearly 10 years later, she dances just down the street from Ground Zero at the Pussycat Lounge.

Thousands of workers spend their days toiling in the neighborhood around the World Trade Center site, a space that had gained renewed national attention amid controversial plans to build an Islamic center there.

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