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Josephine Briggs
Definitely not. It is a sad story of lonely young people and how they go about their lives.
Peter Buckley
No, but it does involve mental illness in the terms of what is normal. There is an overwhelming melancholy and sense of loss but the book is too beautiful to address it in a negative way. It observes it.
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