If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together w…

Laurie Halse Anderson
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If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). Wintergirls, p.27, Scholastic UK
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