She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the qu…

Tom Perrotta
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She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them. ✨ Tom Perrotta (2007). Little Children: A Novel, p.10, Macmillan
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