Humans of New York, Tanqueray Will Make You Love to Love You Baby
The $2.5 million tip
And she lived happily ever after
Our update in the continuing story of Humans of New York, Tanqueray, her GoFundMe page has over $2.6 million in dollar tip.
Click your heels together three times and say ‘There’s no place like home’ and you’ll be there. — From the Wizard of Oz
By now, this is the happy ending I want for Tanqueray. She would live a comfortable life and in her last days, more people would know her name, Tanqueray. She will live on, not as a Disney princess, in a fairy tale. But once upon a time, we met a woman named Tanqueray, who like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz finds her way home.
The pandemic has given us time to reflect on our own lives. It is during times of uncertainty when we examine our lives. At times we may feel lost, left without any answers. And that life may appear to be bleak and the future appears to be like a long lost wind. I take comfort from Tanqueray, that life loves me, that life loves her, and that life loves all of us. In the end, we will triumph over adversity.
Why Tanqueray is this year’s best online storyteller
I can only answer for myself, she tells her story with honesty. No ifs, and no buts, and no filter. She shares her authentic self. Her online storytelling is something she shares with the best storytellers of our time.
A good story never gets old
We think all stories have already been told. But if there is something that remains to be true, that life is still full of surprises. Who would have thought in 2020, the world comes to a halt. This year, we are all told to stay at home, 7.8 billion around the world are experiencing the pandemic, that is 7.8 billion stories, of triumph and defeat, of life and death, of love and sorrow.
Each one of us will remember this year, but I would remember this year as the year of hope, kindness, and meaning. And if I can add, I will remember this year, as the year I learned from Tanqueray.
Tanqueray shares the truth of a storyteller, she helps us see ourselves as the hero of the story. You can’t help rooting for her, because we see ourselves in her, we see parts of our story in her story.
Who wouldn’t be hooked in her story? In the first part of the Tattletales From Tanqueray, she brings us to a different time. Call it escapism, but it helps not to think about the present, and look back at the past when the world was different from what it is today.
Tanqueray, Tanqueray, Tanqueray. When this photo was taken, ten thousand men in New York City knew that name.
(1/32) “Tanqueray, Tanqueray, Tanqueray. When this photo was taken, ten thousand men in New York…
I wasn’t reading her words anymore. I was taken back, to a time in New York City, I saw her as a young Tanqueray. I saw the men she was describing, I was there with her.
Her life story isn’t the first we heard about a stripper, her story of a difficult childhood, and a cruel mother.
You would say, but I heard that story before, but not the way it is being told by Tanqueray.
In every post shared, I wasn’t reading it. I was there listening beside her, I saw her as a child, the white neighborhood, her mother, her doing the ballet as a child.
As she grows to be a teenager, her first crush, her first sex, the unwanted pregnancy, her time in prison, her future foretold by an inmate/ fortune teller. The parole, and of new beginnings
I arrived in New York City on Valentine’s Day. It was like being reborn.
Time Square, Peppermint lounge, the mob, her early start as a gogo dancer, her friendship with Vicki, the upscale call girl. The truth bomb, Oscar her consequential stranger, meeting her real love, more tricks, marriage, divorce, death of a friend, and her new stage name as a stripper, the day when Tanqueray is born. What does Tanqueray mean? We will soon find out in the next installment of Tattletales from Tanqueray.
Her story continues to unfold. I can’t wait to read it. No, I can’t wait to be with Tanqueray. Once upon a time, the happy ending while foretold with her story read by many and made her a millionaire. Her story isn’t over, and I want more of it because it means Tanqueray continues to live on.
To be continued …
Follow the full series, Tattletales From Tanqueray, and please continue to support Tanqueray or Stephanie by donating to her GoFundMe page here.






