It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.