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506 LISTEN HERE DISCOVERED from October Dusk (1987) A skinny girl with cornstalk legs and hair like straw was mocked by her classmates for her Goodwill clothes, her self-pitying seriousness. While they attended ballgames and worshipped Max Factor, she hid safely in her room reading big thick books full of questions and very small print. Kant, Freud, and Camus, she still didn't understand while the flames licked the posters off the wall and the rug grew too warm for her feet. At 16 she begged with adolescent fervor for THE ANSWER until one Sunday afternoon, the air wet with tears, she said no to the easiest one. It's a good thingfor a curly-haired boy in overalls with cat-gray eyes and a wonderfully hard body discovered her, introduced her to the joy of unreserved excess to a different kind of flames convinced her that it was not up to the 16-year-olds of the world to answer the questions. ...

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