Granted, I read it in bits over a few weeks, but right from the start it felt perfunctory and repetitive. Once a sizeable number of ‘pages’ have been completed they are cut and seperated leaving a small seam allowance of about a quarter inch or so on all four sides beyond the blanket stitch. Later, in his early teens, David developed a growth on his neck, and eventually had surgery to remove it. When your father gives you cancer, your mother is a secret lesbian and your grandmother is a homicidal lunatic, what hope do you have of normalcy?

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