But it's not like Ellis wants these readers, they can disappear elsewhere.
No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know.
My generation needs its Bret Easton Ellis.
When he's had enough of that her lover throws her on the bed to teach her she's alive and suddenly he's dead.
You can lecture them, to no point, and plead with them, to no avail, but essentially an outsider is powerless over someone else's addiction.
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