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“Teenage girls curl up together like newborn puppies, painting one another’s toes as if they were licking one another’s ears. If you sit long enough in any Starbucks, or loiter outside any high school, you will see girls climbing onto one another’s laps, kissing on the lips. They aren’t hitting on each other, not precisely, though they are in a constant state of arousal that borders on the insane. No other love is like the love of a teenage girl, all passion and fire and endless devotion—at least for a week.”
Emma Straub’s piece on My So-Called Life/Rayanne on the Paris Review blog is so, so great.
“When she was bleaching my hair in her bathtub, we laughed so hard and so loud that her younger sister told us we needed...