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What is there that is too dirty, too sordid, too depressing to be read about or spoken of? If literature cannot deal with the grimy underbelly of life, then what is it for?

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“There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there”

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“One beats the bushes; another rakes the fruits”

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