Marina

A pressed shirt on the wardrobe door and slides open on the desk: Marina reads the night before a meeting at a glance and plans the hour around it.

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Marina, massage therapist, photographed indoors

Marina lives in Oud-Zuid and speaks English, and nothing else is needed for an evening in a room where the rest of the week has already been scheduled. She is twenty-eight and unhurried, and she treats the single chair and narrow desk as furniture to be moved rather than worked around. Conference hotels near the airport run warm after dark, so she asks for the air to be turned down before her bag is even opened. Sixty minutes will do for a guest who needs to be asleep by eleven, while two hours suits someone whose meeting is not until the afternoon. A visit out to Schiphol with her is by arrangement, the travel time named first.

Marina decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.