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LILY: “If only I could time travel back and ‘police’ patrons with my authority and flashlight at the Avalon Theater in Detroit where I was an usherette. The Avalon was in the Whisper and Wetson chain or something like that. We wore gray blouses with maroon skirts and a WW embroidered on the pocket of the blouse and we used to say it stood for Wild Women. I was 14 at the time, very skinny and padding my hips to fill out the maroon skirt…”