We realised that the version of the world they had rendered… - The Virgin Suicides

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We realised that the version of the world they had rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass, they didn't give a damn about lawns.

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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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