Ellen Wittlinger
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Hi Susan. Great you're curating your LFL so well! In truth, I haven't kept up with the YA world much since I'm only writing plays these days, but I looked at this list: https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recom... and there are a few titles/authors whose
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“People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world — even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?”
― Parrotfish
― Parrotfish
“I watched her walk away, first thinking: good riddance – who needs this abuse? And then after a minute thinking: she never really understood me anyway. Which rapidly changed to: I never understood her at all. And before long I was watching her small back disappear and thinking: there goes the only person who ever gave a damn about me.”
― Hard Love
― Hard Love
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That's great, Irish! Thanks for telling me!

Cinda"
Oh, good, my mind is almost always totally blank!


Cinda