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Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
   3.67 avg rating — 476 ratings
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2004
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Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories
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2005
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Trailer Trashed: My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility
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2008
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The Customer Is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles
by Jeff Martin , Wade Rouse, Jim Derogatis 2.98 avg rating — 143 ratings
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2008
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“That's the detail of the dead woman I always remember: her bare left foot, along with packets of Top Ramen and a torn box of cat food strewn about as plastic bags danced in the wind of passing cars. I always think how, when she left the house that day, the last thing on that woman's mind must have been the possibility of dying on the pavement with dried noodles crowning her head. Maybe if she had paid more attention to detail, like the oncoming car, she would have made it home to feed her cat.”
― Hollis Gillespie, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
― Hollis Gillespie, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
“I'm sure you've heard people use the term, "You just don't get it." Well, I figured out the 'it' is the point in life. I believe I was supposed to have been there when my father died, but it was a point in life I just didn't get.”
― Hollis Gillespie, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
― Hollis Gillespie, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
“Our duty," he said, "is to catapult each other into greatness!" We are not great yet, but at least we sometimes experience moments of immeasurable glee. At least we are not wholly miserable every minute of the day, and we know we have made one another into what we are today.”
― Hollis Gillespie, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
― Hollis Gillespie, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood
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