
Fernanda Melchor and Nicole Flattery: Paradais
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The Importance of the Devil in Adolescence
Barakru. really desires other men and he has to shut that desire, like suppress it,. and he turns to violence in his efforts to deny himself. For me the adolescence is such a special stage where you first become, for the first time you feel like a person. It's so scary to be an adolescent, and it's such an interesting moment like dramatically to start experiencing this existential angst. And I think if you kind of hear these things from a young age or you read a bed as I would have, it's in you, so when you sit down to write, it's all going to come out," she says.
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