Dan Seitz

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the names of the towns are similar, as is the Linden Street of Sally Horner’s childhood home and the Lawn Street where the Haze women live. Both towns shared a white, middle-class bucolic atmosphere. As would happen again and again, the Sally Horner story parallels Lolita in all sorts of surprising ways.
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
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