Go Ask Alice Part 2 with Carmen Maria Machado
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The Swingers
The book opens with, it has happened again. And i don't know whether to weep or rejoice. The men were so gorgeous. They were like tanned statues of the roman gods. And the women were so breathtaking. It made me happy and frightened all at the same time. Then we get chilia has parties almost every night, and we are always invited. These were the swingers, and i wanted to be a part of it. So this begins another sort of, like, downward movement in terms of her drug use. She's mean, pregnant, that's the thing. O, the pill keeps coming up as a light motief in this book, is, well
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