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Understanding

Understanding

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She thinks of the ending of Back to the Future, where Marty’s dad is suddenly cool and fashionable, because Marty’s time traveling has improved the course of the past, so the teenage version of his father, McFly, stood up to the bully instead of capitulating to him. Gretchen wonders what version of herself would now be chopping Brussels sprouts in half.more

Bonnie McCorkle

Bonnie McCorkle

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Her virginity, such a fetishized thing when I had known her, something proudly and literally brandished had now become how so many others, including myself, had regarded our virginity: cumbersome, something to divest.more