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What the **** is Normal?!

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If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … disabled? 

Artist / Author Francesca Martinez
Publisher Virgin Books
ISBN 978-0753555354
Reference P3569
Date 2015
Type Publication

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