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When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces... read more

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  • YOU WERE JUST A BOY on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew.
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WE KEEP BURNING in the brown smog pit.

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  1. Francesca Lia Block (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing
Country: United States
Publication Date: November 2003
ISBN: 006028644X
Page Count: 160

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