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Maybe the term "Breck girl" was already is use elsewhere.
Translate: Goddam, you too-cool-for-school snarky Republican meme-monger.
And: "In 'Story of My Life,' Poole is exactly how McInerney describes her."
Holy cats, Justin. Do you mean that McInerney exactly described a character that he himself invented? He's one smart eighties writer, isn't he?
I hope you aren't doing something really spooky-subtle here--writing about a character based on a person and hoping that we'll think that you'r writing about the person herself.
That's not how fiction works and, I hope you'll realize, Justin, how honest journalism works.
