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I’m more interested in the author’s idea of a happy life: it’s girls in their twenties, visiting other countries or working.

Let’s fact-check this but I think Italy’s teenagers also go to high school.

lol. Is Uruguay considered “exotic”?

So we get a “moral of the story is….”

Religion makes a suddenly appearance for one paragraph.

It would have been interesting if the twist was his innocence.

In a 300 page book, we get one paragraph lamenting racism in the criminal justice system, and then we get one paragraph lamenting the cruelty of capital punishment.

slight hiccup. I’m still trying to work this verb out. winks out? or do you mean blinks out? Like, an old TV will blink off. what about vanishes? or flash? — “Jenny winks out from her own reflection…”

sure are a lot of “seems”, “looks like”, “maybe”, “possibly”, “could be” in this chapter.

Aside: What would you call a contemporary lust? — “…inspire a bizarre, primitive lust.”