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Only two girls in my grade came from there - the Raybern sisters, twins - and though they were impeccably neat, they wore homemade calf-length skirts, pleated button-down blouses and belted cardigans as if they were already spinsters. If they had been smart we would have understood them, but they were C students, and therefore weird for no real reason.
-Stewart O'Nan, Snow Angels, p.62
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