This was all the fuel Jenny needed to reject the values her mother and grandmother had been trying to pump into her since birth: that anything done in the interest of a family’s protection was warranted, that money is the only true safety in the world, that the systems that had worked till now would be in place forever so a girl had better be skinny and pretty and with the same kind of processed hair and processed nose that all these people had in order to get married and perpetuate a family that would conspicuously consume into the next generation, sitting on an estate with an electrified
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