“She blurbed through her Moms-All-Purpose-Adjustable-List-Of-Horrors that might have happened whenever a child is out of sight.”

—  Katherine Dunn, book Geek Love

Geek Love (1989)

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American novelist, journalist, poet 1945–2016

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