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Julie loathed the class of rich, untalented men meh/style

Julie could endure being treated like a stupid child, but what she couldn’t tolerate was when these men got it into their heads that they were actually lovable. If she couldn’t bring herself to love extraordinary men who actually contributed to cultural history, who turned their creepy sexual obses…

—p.52 n+1 Issue 39: Take Care Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang
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she wanted to be . . . an artist

I must have gotten it from Blockbuster? Or maybe the library had a clearing-out sale? She honestly couldn’t remember, but she did remember the afternoon when she came home from school and watched the movie, finished it, and immediately rewound to the beginning and watched again. From that point on,…

—p.51 Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang
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the third was his second film

He looked up at her with the reverence of a pilgrim. He especially liked being mothered by young girls. Bouncy flesh made him feel alive and their desire to take care of him made him feel capable of love. Capable of being loved or of loving someone? Julie wondered, even though, deep down, she didn’…

—p.48 Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang
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clearly he was a sought-after man meh/style

This was all a lead-up to trying to get Julie to agree to spend time with John for free. If famous Hollywood actresses were paying to see him and willing to do just about anything to fuck him, then clearly he was a sought-after man. Only the most superficial dum-dum of dum-dums focused on the glut …

—p.47 Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang
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ran out of to-do lists to compose in her head

Unh unh unh, he wagged his finger at Julie as if they were in a sitcom. And maybe they were. After all, what was someone like her doing with him, listening in rapt attention to a middle-aged man with flaking skin on his forehead and cheeks, knowing that in fifteen minutes they would head to the bed…

—p.46 Question Mark (45) by Jenny Zhang