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Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Bitter Lara Matar , Redfern : Sydney Story Factory , 2018 18585475 2018 single work novella

'“You don’t believe in love? That’s stupid.”

'“What do you mean stupid?”

'“Idiotic, dumb, silly. Stupid. Love isn’t romantic. You feel love when you look at your family; when you look at your friends, not just some piece of ass. Romantic love stupid – you can’t say that you haven’t felt it when I hear you talk about your family.”

'“C’mon, Jem, you know that that isn’t the love I’m talking about. I mean within rel—"

'“Then how would you define love?”

'Jihun Kim’s goal at the coffee house was to finish his work. Mina Masadopa’s goal, apparently, was to piss him off.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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