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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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caul
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My granny back in Tennessee was born with the web of a caul over her head like a wedding veil

quoting the terrifying guy who "rescues" her in his car

—p.21 Escape from the Tropic of Squalor (13) by Mary Karr
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what hurts so bad about youth

But I rounded each corner believing rescue would show up. [...]

(What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.)

—p.19 Escape from the Tropic of Squalor (13) by Mary Karr
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Escape from the Tropic of Squalor by Mary Karr

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keloid

no keloid scars from boiling water

—p.14 Escape from the Tropic of Squalor (13) by Mary Karr
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slipshod

doing so felt like the first true and good act I'd managed in my whole slipshod life

about feeding her son

—p.9 Prologue: Open Letter to My Son (1) by Mary Karr
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