She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, — Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, — Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, — Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, — Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, — Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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