MistySue was a high school track star with scholarships lined up for big California schools until she got pregnant her senior year. Her ultra-conservative parents forced her to keep the pregnancy & drop out. She got her GED before the baby was born & was forced to give the little girl up for adoption. After that, she escaped her parents by catching a bus out of town from their little home in the Central Valley of CA. She drifted from town to town in her young adult years, stripping, bartending, doing anything for money, even stealing it if she had to. As she got older, her street smarts more than admirable, she started running a bar in New Orleans, until the owner caught her skimming off the top. Taking off before the cops could find her & hitchhiking until she found herself in in another town to start over... again