Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on …

Banana Yoshimoto
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Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything. ✨ Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). Three Plays, p.59, Grove Press
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