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People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.
Mary Karr (via thebronzemedal)
(this post was reblogged from powells)

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    This is all true, and yet I would still quite like to have a dashboard Virgin Mary that glows in the dark. It’s my...
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    POST-CULTURALISM. LIVE WITH IT
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    Sounds like what my hometown would’ve been like if we had a bookstore. We didn’t. We had a small library though.
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