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Excerpt from Jon Mclaughlin's "Beautiful Disaster" -

She's giving boys what they want, tries to act so nonchalant, Afraid they'll see that she's lost her direction. She never stays the same for long, Assuming that she'll get it wrong. Perfect only in her imperfection... But she just needs someone to take her home

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Excerpts from __Daisy Miller__, by Henry James:

"Was she also a designing, an audacious, an unscrupulous young person?" (James, 57).

"Winterbourne listened with interest to these disclosures; they helped him to make up his mind about Miss Daisy. Evidently she was rather wild" (James, 63).

"'What has she been doing?' 'Everything that is not done here. Flirting with any man she could pick up; sitting in corners with mysterious Italians; dancing all evening with the same partners; receiving visits at eleven o'clock at night...'" (James, 94).

"'If this is improper, Mrs. Walker.' she pursued, 'then I am all improper, and you must give me up" (James, 93).

"'You are old enough to be more reasonable. You are old enough, dear Miss Miller, to be talked about" (James, 92).

PICTURES: "Red Tullip" by Jules White - (top left) "Untitled" by Spencer Tunick - (top right)

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