“Every woman needs a special friend of her own sex with whom she can 'have a haircombing' about everything from menstruation to male monsters, and Julie had become that kind of special friend.”

—  Susan Howatch , book The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 2: Ginevra

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