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My Nipples Loved Fruit

By Thomas Bell

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | August 26, 2004

Call me an anthrocentrist (my nipples often do, though they lisp the "tr"), but I read the novel more as the story of an obese 13-year-old Canadian boy whose considerable social burdens have been increased by the budding of his nipples into cherry-sized stigmata.

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