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Sex Ed - when I finally got to take it - was all about biology and birth control and nothing about anything that actually goes on between people.

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E. Lockhart
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 13
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New York City
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I know they're not getting divorced or anything, but when your parents argue it makes the whole universe seem like it's tipping, like everything could change if they got mad enough at each other, like the world isn't a safe place. And of course, that's true, isn't it? The world is not a safe place.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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