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'Once, after I’d grown pubic hair, I slathered Mum’s Nair all over it. This was in the early 1980s. I don’t know how it is now, but back then Nair smelled like nothing else. The results were unsatisfactory: only some of the hair came off and what was left looked like splinters. Looking down at the mess, I can remember feeling estranged from my body. I wanted to go back to a time when I wasn’t so obviously disgusting, but of course this was impossible.' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: Feminine adolescence, like the uncanny, is an experience of being…perpetually on the border between the once inhabited self, and the erasure of that self.
- Deborah Martin
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