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One of the agencies the package went to was Frederick Hill Associates in San Francisco, where Bonnie Nadell, a new associate who had worked in the subsidiary rights department at Simon & Schuster when Less Than Zero was published,

The air outside rumbles as planes lift into the sky, while inside garbled announcements blare over the loudspeaker. Somewhere behind me, an older woman speaks in sharp, staccato Italian. But I don’t look away from the curb, my eyes trained on the crowded sidewalk outside the terminal, searching for her, anchoring my belief—and my entire future—on t

Studies of how a child responds to being separated from her mother have shown that the child goes through three distinct stages as she deals with the loss. Initially, she will protest more loudly, believing that a more vigorous appeal will bring help. Then she will give up crying out in protest and fall into a passive despair, still hoping for help

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