#the namesake also fucked me up but i didn't read that till i was older
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what's a book you read as a teenager that was so magical and personally profound to you it literally changed your life, doesnt matter if the book was actually well written or not. mine's probably the catcher in the rye
#oooough#dandelion wine and a separate peace#ASP also hits different reading it years later after leaving an abusive environment#Preserved along with it#like stale air in an unopened room. was the well known fear which had surrounded and filled those days.#so much of it that I hadn't even known it was there#Because. unfamiliar with the abscence of fear and what that was like. I had not been able to identify it's presence#< sentence that makes me go insane#god and the concept of dandelion wine.. i live that now: a piece of happiness you bottle in the summer so you have something#warm and sweet to hold onto in the cold winter#the namesake also fucked me up but i didn't read that till i was older#island of the blue dolphins also really stuck with me as a young kid#the doll in the garden: it was interesting as a kid but did irreparable psychological damage reading it as an adult after#losing my mom to cancer#also. fucking#A Child Called It
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