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That after an ugly childhood and gawky adolescence, I would blossom into a legendary beauty, the type of which that would awe strangers and be best described as “lissome” and “shining,” i...

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Miss Havisham presides over Great Expectations like a great, ill-willed fairy queen. She is, by turns, the novel's resident corpse, its ghost, its fairy godmother, and "the Witch of the place"—...

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You long to go on an adventure, but only so long as the adventure is not in any way uncomfortable or inconvenient. Orcs are chasing you, but this does not bother you nearly as much as the inadequ...

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Today in Ms. Frizzle's class we were learning about the body. "What body?" Carlos kept asking anyone who would listen. "Somebody." Ms. Frizzle laughed uproariously every time he said it. "Somebod...

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You have just swept someone a magnificent, yet insolent, leg. You have interrupted a game of wist to introduce the players to your ward. You have been pronounced a social success by the greatest...

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Many readers familiar with Charles Dickens' Great Expectations are aware that he originally wrote an ending where Pip and Estella meet years after their painful parting only to solemnly shake han...

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Hi Moira! We went to college together but never dated the same person, which is good, because that would make this awkward! Let's talk about love.

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WHAT FRIENDS SAY: That they’re sorry, but something came up and they can’t come over after all.

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The existence of the authors suggested a way to live and work within institutions that didn’t involve giving up parts of myself, and their books suggested that fear was not an inappropriate res...

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Great Expectations is a book about a boy who is never allowed to finish a meal in peace, and a woman who stays in wedding-dress shape for her entire life. It's pretty good. Here are all of the up...

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