No, it was the animals she spent most of her alone time with. And it wasn’t like she could do anything sexual with them. Not again.
“Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“*1959* 100th McDonald’s: Fon du Lac, Wisconsin”
― Microserfs
― Microserfs
“Is heaven a physical place or just a state of mind?”
― Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
― Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
“There was always that shadowy twin, thin when I was fat, fat when I was thin, myself in silvery negative, with dark teeth and shining white pupils glowing in the black sunlight of that other world. —Margaret Atwood”
― 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
― 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
“A giant hand pulls back a dark curtain from behind my eyes and I suddenly find myself in the kitchen at the stove.”
― The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales
― The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales
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