When she was 15 years old, Janet P. She works when and wherever she sel. In a park across from the Lower East Side apartment she occupies, Janet talked about her former life as an adolescent drug dealer. The same man who ssell me cutting dope for him asked if I’d like to work the streets. If your stuff is good, the junkies will follow you home to get it. This guy I was working for liked the way I was dealing, so he made me a lieutenant. I was I had to give out a consignment to five or six other kids who reported directly to me with the money. And I gave it to the man.