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“She looked good to stay away from, but then I’m not a man; probably it worked in reverse with them.”

“Given that women’s lives are often interrupted by both childcare duties and caring for ailing family members, it’s also hardly surprising that women accumulate many fewer assets and are more likely to retire into poverty than their male counterparts. A recent report found that the European Union gender pension gap was 40 percent, which far exceeds the gender pay gap of 16 percent.”

“The British cotton industry, which was the first genuinely capitalist branch of production, would have been impossible not only without cotton from the southern states of the American Union, but also without the millions of Black Africans who were transported to America in order to provide labor-power for the plantations…”

“..from 1989–90 to 2012–13, state and local spending on corrections rose by 89 percent while state and local appropriations for higher education remained flat.11”

“As someone who has extensively researched and is personally affected by mass incarceration, I know that in the United States, blackness is associated with guilt and criminality.”

If Emmett is eight then he would know the word ‘sibling’. Four-year-olds know that word.

This is like reading Wikipedia.

Lol. His stare is like a poem? What does that even mean?

Author loves meaningless lists.

Please don’t equate a tree fungus with the Holocaust. They are not the same

So silly. I could also write something vague and meaningless like, ‘The chestnut was as strong as justice.”

I can’t tell yet if the author or the character stuck in magical thinking.

There’s these sort of ridiculous moments. And then back on track

Uh huh. A little ridiculous but alright.

Is Violet Zelda Fitzgerald?

Very grandiose prologue.

Ch 49: Phyllis POV

Messed up, Phyllis.

cH 45: Random kitten

ch 36: pizza

Actually, never mind: We all know what happens to the Mentor in the hero’s journey.

I agree; teacher to student ratios would be better at 1 to 1. — “Oh wait, we were just looking at it, weren’t we.” She racks her brain. Phyllis quizzed her on the amphibian section of a field guide days before.”

I see that we’re starting to regress… — “…comes naturally to her.”

Yes, the deep heritage of *check notes* inland floriday. — “…its land, its inhabitants, its struggle, its history…”

To be honest, we didn’t need this. — “She’s aware that something strange has happened…”

Wait. Telling your girlfriends that you and your boyfriend broke up would destroy the friend group? Something wrong here.

I collide with the bed so hard that I rebound right into him? Is the bed made out of fire?

Lol. - “he ruins me.”

Lol. No.

As tight as these friends are, they know nothing about each other.