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getting old in mke

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10. Two books by high school classmates

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 09:05 PM

Jul 2012

_The Boy Who Loved Robbie Douglas_ by Jeffrey Dennis. Young gay man coming of age in a very closeted environment -- fundamentalist, blue collar, Illinois industrial town in the mid-60s-70s.

_Other Oceans_ by Andrea Jones. Book two in her Jungian riff on Peter Pan. Book 1 was _Hook & Jill_ (Wendy's pirate name was "Red Handed Jill."

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