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Apparently you can simply walk into Mordor. #longestwalkever #mountdoomorbust

So far it reminds me of Libba Bray's "Beauty Queens".

"I don't hate it here; I hate what happens to me when I am here. I hate the way it draws me in. The way it leads to nowhere but itself. The way everyone and everything is connected and a person cannot be free." (On rural Vermont)

Welp, I tried Old Man.

"A deeper difficulty, welling up from some bedeviling idealism, was the incoherent feeling that there was something more difficult, and therefore more right, I could do, than just live pleasantly with a decent man."

Wtf, Cannie? How did you become an insecure, (s)mother with a spoiled brat for a child. I cannot bring myself to like her daughter, despite Joy's own adolescent insecurities. She is harsh, judgmental, and condescending towards her mother.