Burlesque, Circus, Bordello, The Carefully Cultivated Bedside Manner, It's All coming Full Circle

Witch's gramps came to town with a traveling circus.
He was a lion tamer.
He and his lion chose to strike roots here.
He married a burlesque dancer.
They opened a "boarding house" across the tracks.
The lion died.
There were young vulnerable ladies who were just as afraid of whips and chairs as are lions.
Gramps bought himself a suit and a stethoscope and cultivated a nice bedside manner and soothing voice.
He tended to big cats in the tri-state area and said he was a vet, a Dr so-and-so.
It helped him get a leg up in society.
While growing up the witch picked it all up and took over the family business.
 By 15 she was running the place.
Her sugar daddy wanted her to be more genteel, like his schoolteacher mother, so he paid her way through college.
Her then future husband was closer to her own age so sugar Daddy told to not waste her youth on age and wished her a good life.
Her husband was engaged to some one else at the time, but he was quite mesmerized by the whole whips and chains routine that the witch put on that night.
His fiance and he just drifted apart.
They never technically broke up.
Witch said she missed her period.
They were wed that month.
Witch miscarried she said a month later.
They grieved.
They tried again.
They had twins five years later.
                                                                                                                                 - SDG