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by the repression of adolescent
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
Woody Clabault’s sister had the same brand, and once, after we got into his parents’ liquor cabinet, we made him put on the lipstick and kiss each one of us so that we, too, would know what it tasted like.
Lol thats so gay
In the end, it wasn’t death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”
“Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.”
hadn’t even had. Mr. Hedlie mentioned that fin-de-siècle
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.
