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"I knew one thing for sure. What was happening in the picture — that was sex. That was the secret thing that adults did and kids didn’t do. The thing that the characters in the novel I’d “borrowed” from my great aunt were always hoping to do."
My Library’s Copy of the What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys | The Hairpin
Kate Fridkis gets and unexpected education from a library copy of a puberty book. This line reminds me of when all my girl friends read the same copy of Flowers in the Attic in middle school.
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bat mitzvah tutor so this is very cool (miss you laura)
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We are a nonprofit bookstore, cafe, and event space in downtown NYC. All proceeds from every show you attend and everything you buy, down to a record and a PBR, go directly to our mission of fighting AIDS and homelessness. 126 Crosby Street, NYC
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Alison Espach: The Adults
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Laura Miller on the first fictional aliens in the New Yorker SF issue. With a special illustration...
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