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A teenager's attempt to maintain psychological integrity-the maladaptive coping mechanisms she uses as a way to stay alive and her path to recovery. You say it's up to me to do the talking. You lean forward, place a box of tissues in front of me and your black leather chair groans, like a living thing. Like the cow it used to be before somebody killed it and turned it into a chair in a shrink's office in a loony bin. Fifteen-year old Callie is so withdrawn that she's not speaking to anyone -including her therapist at the "residential treatment facility" where her parents and doctor send her after discovering that she cuts herself. Her story unfolds primarily through dramatic monologues, gradually revealing the family turmoil that led to her self-destructive behavior. Her little brother, Sam, is ill -he nearly died in her care. Since Sam's illness, Callie's mother has become so worried and fragile, she rarely leaves the house; she sees danger everywhere. Her father has responded to the psychological and financial stress of Sam's illness by disappearing into his work, and when that doesn't work, into his drinking. None of this is clear at first, though, especially not to Callie. Only after a cutting incident that scares her, does Callie begin talking -to her therapist and the other girls at Sea Pines. Cut alternates between scenes of life inside the institution with its strange rules and characters and a series of exchanges between Callie and her therapist in which she addresses the therapist only as "you." Callie's efforts to understand herself and her family illuminate her process of recovery honestly and with hope. Cut provides an insightful look at the psychology of cutting -a form of self-abuse an estimated 2 million teenage girls inflict on themselves.

While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

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Publishers Weekly

In this adaptation of McCormick's debut novel, Lewis (TV's Ellen) imbues her reading with the cynicism and pain of the book's troubled 15-year-old protagonist, Callie. Callie faces some difficult emotional hurdles as a "guest" at the residential treatment center where she has been sent because she cuts herself with sharp objects. In a flat, unaffected tone, befitting someone unhappy with her situation, Lewis's Callie explains the daily routines and schedules at Sea Pines, the facility dubbed "Sick Minds" by Callie's roommate. Though she doesn't speak to her fellow guests, or even her doctors at first, listeners are always privy to Callie's feelings and her impressions of her surroundings, be it what the anorexic guests don't eat or how the substance abuse guests cope. Details of her stressful, dysfunctional home life trickle out along the way; it's at these points that Lewis's vulnerable voice invites listeners to feel compassion for Callie. As Callie makes breakthroughs with her therapists and comes to better understand her behavior and its causes, Lewis meets the challenge of tearful scenes. Lewis never sounds phony, though, and conveys the hope in McCormick's ending, which suggests Callie's eventual recovery. Ages 12-up. (Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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This first novel combines pathos with insight as it describes adolescent girls being hospitalized for a variety of psychiatric disorders: "The place is called a residential treatment facility. It is not called a loony bin," states Callie, the narrator, with characteristic grit. Callie does not speak aloud for most of the story, but directs her silent commentary chiefly to her therapist. Through this internalized dialogue, readers become aware of Callie's practice of cutting herself and, more gradually, how her cutting is a response to the dynamics of her damaged family. Similarly, the other girls' problems--anorexia, overeating, substance abuse--come to seem (both to themselves and to readers) like attempts to fight off parental or societal obliviousness to their needs: "It's like we're invisible," says a girl during a climactic scene. While running the risk of simplifying the healing process, this novel, like Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, sympathetically and authentically renders the difficulties of giving voice to a very real sense of harm and powerlessness. Refusing to sensationalize her subject matter, McCormick steers past the confines of the problem-novel genre with her persuasive view of the teenage experience. Ages 12-up. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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Callie doesn't speak, not even to her therapist at Sea Pines—nicknamed Sick Minds by other patients at the "residential treatment facility." Instead, Callie hides behind her hair, studies carpets stains, counts stripes in the wallpaper, and pulls her sleeves down over her cuts. This disturbing account of a teenaged girl's slow and painful awakening to the reasons behind her self-mutilation makes for compelling and enlightening reading. Reminiscent in part of Cormier's I Am the Cheese, McCormick uses realistic and telling details of private therapy to give the reader clues, but no answers, to Callie's destructive tendencies. The reader, like Callie, must learn to see things from different perspectives, or "think laterally," as her nine-year-old brother Sam advises her when he's winning a game of Connect Four. Although the story doesn't quite sustain its tension to the end, it does begin with real punch and delivers knowledgeable insight into mental illness and its treatment throughout. The author's ability to depict genuinely caring and competent physicians, while still staying true to Callie's distrustful point of view, is especially noteworthy. This honest portrayal of all perspectives, coupled with a gripping story, makes this a valuable book for both teens and parents. 2000, Front Street, $16.95. Ages 12 up. Reviewer: Betty Hicks

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To quote KLIATT's January 2001 review of the hardcover edition: Fifteen-year-old Callie is currently living at Sea Pines, known by its "guests" as Sick Minds; it's a residential treatment facility where she has been sent after it was discovered that she was cutting herself. The other troubled girls there dub Callie "S.T.," for Silent Treatment, because she refuses to talk to anyone at first. Gradually, however, Callie starts to interact with the other girls and finally begins to open up to her therapist. She tells about her feelings of guilt over a severe asthma attack suffered by her brother, and how his illness has affected the family, leaving her to cope with life on her own. She manages to tell her father how she feels, too, and the ending is a hopeful one. The realities of life in a psychiatric hospital are conveyed well in this strong first novel, as well as the stresses that led to Callie's disorder. There are detailed accounts of her cutting behavior, too, but they aren't here for shock value; rather, they contribute to the authentic feel of the novel. Callie and the other residents, anorexics and drug users as well as a fellow cutter, come across as believable and mostly sympathetic characters. The glimpse of life inside a treatment center will intrigue readers, and Callie's neediness, her courage, and her realistically difficult recovery will move them. KLIATT Codes: JS—Recommended for junior and senior high school students. 2000, Scholastic, Push, 152p.,
— Paula Rohrlick

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This extraordinary novel explores the psychological phenomenon of self-mutilation known as cutting. Written in first person, the book recounts the story of thirteen-year-old Callie, who has been placed in a residential treatment center. Although many patients have eating disorders, others, such as Callie, repeatedly cut their skin with sharp objects, creating physical scars, scabs, and sores that mirror the mental ones. The story unfolds through Callie's therapy sessions, her interactions with other residents, and her mental monologues. Mute by choice, Callie's silence is her sanity. Her younger brother Sam's severe asthma has altered the family dynamics and taken over their lives. Callie's coping mechanism is cutting. Although the road to recovery for any such patient is long and extensive, this book gives the reader just a glimpse into the psyche of one teenager who cuts. Realistic, sensitive, and heartfelt, this book explores the power of the human spirit as it struggles through mental illness. The well-developed characters, including the motherly, rock-solid secondary character of Ruby, one of the attendants, also reflect the author's strength as a writer. This brilliant novel is even more perceptive than Shelley Stoehr's Crosses (Delacorte, 1991/VOYA October 1991) and James Bennett's I Can Hear the Mourning Dove (Houghton Mifflin, 1990/VOYA October 1990). VOYA CODES: 5Q 4P M J (Hard to imagine it being any better written; Broad general YA appeal; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9). 2000, Front Street, 168p. Ages 12 to 15. Reviewer: Mary Ann Capan VOYA, February 2001 (Vol. 23, No.6)

School Library Journal

Gr 7-12-This compelling novel by Patricia McCormick (Front St., 2000) is presented as a first-person account by Callie, who is confined to a mental health facility. Sea Pine (Sick Minds) is home to teenage "guests" with a variety of problems: substance abuse, anorexia, and behavior issues. Fifteen-year-old Callie cuts herself. While this account describes group therapy and Callie's fears, she sits silently during group and individual therapy sessions. The turning point occurs when she is gradually drawn into the lives of the other teen residents. Listeners anxiously wait to discover why Callie harms herself. Actress Clea Lewis does an excellent job of portraying the different characters with her voice inflections. Listeners are drawn into the girls' despair and become painfully aware of the emotional angst resulting in each girl's confinement at Sea Pines. A good choice for fans of Susanna Kaysen's Girl Interrupted -Lynda Short, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Elizabeth Crow

I'd never understood cutting before I read ''Cut,'' a vivid and inspiring first novel by Patricia McCormick. I couldn't imagine what the allure was, until I realized that it's not that far from many more common self-inflicted injuries that are just passing phases in many kids' lives: head banging, finger biting, slamming a fist into a wall...The story of how Callie and some of the others begin to get well demystifies mental illness, but doesn't oversimplify or sentimentalize it. To McCormick's credit, we care -- about the girls and about their clumsy, frightened parents.
—New York Times Book Review

Kirkus Reviews

Sea Pines, a.k.a. Sick Minds, treats teenaged girls with food- and substance-abuse issues, and Callie, whose issue is self-mutilation. She will not talk about her dysfunctional family, her guilt toward her brother Sam's severe asthma, or why she cuts herself. She will not talk—period. Cut is Callie's interior monologue that alternates between her interactions with her therapist and her interactions with the other residents, the staff, and her family. Her thought process reveals a girl who seems to have given up on life until one cut scares the life back into her. The ability to talk then becomes a metaphor for Callie's ability to understand herself and to begin the healing process. Readers are also treated to the downfalls and triumphs of Callie's peers, including a new resident who shares Callie's affliction. First-timer McCormick tackles a side of mental illness that is rarely seen in young-adult literature in a believable and sensitive manner. Unlike other authors of this genre, she avoids stereotypes and blends gentle humor with this serious topic. McCormick ultimately portrays Callie as a normal teenager who yearns for a stable family structure and friends, and who also has a psychological problem. A thoughtful look at teenage mental illness and recovery. (Fiction. 13-15)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780439324595
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date: 2/28/2002
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 160
Age range: 12 - 17 Years
Lexile: 660L (what's this?)
Product dimensions: 5.04 (w) x 7.26 (h) x 0.39 (d)

Meet the Author

Patricia McCormick, a finalist for the National Book Award, is the acclaimed author of CUT, MY BROTHER'S KEEPER, SOLD, and PURPLE HEART. Her debut novel, CUT, was an ALA Quick Pick for YA Readers, an ALA Best Book for Teenagers, and a NYPL Book for the Teen Age. She lives in New York City.

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Anonymous

Posted November 30, 2008

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FOR CUTTERS

Patricia McCormick has taken three years to write this short book, and I took five nights reading this book and I must say that this book was an excellent title. Sadly, many teenagers are living with depression and cutting themself, but thankfully there are many solutions to heal the pain. This book could be one of those solutions. With every page is a girl someone could relate to, but you could learn from her.
Callie cuts herself, and now she's at Sea Pines or what she calls "Sick Minds" refusing to talk. Instead, she listens to people in her surroundings who are just like her. They are hurt, and they don't want to be trapped. They know why they are here, but they'll have to learn how to fix that.
I recommend this, WELL WRITTEN, book for teenagers, cutters, children, mothers, and teachers. Learn from Callie and enjoy this book like I did. Take heed, people, there is help.

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TulaneGirl

Posted December 11, 2008

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A Disappointment....

Entertaining read, but a little generic. Ms. McCormick doesn't really get into the details/emotions/rationales/etc for being a cutter. It's an interesting story about a girl in a group home/hospital coming to terms with her problems but not really an in depth view into her mindset.

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Anonymous

Posted December 5, 2004

Major Disappointment

it just kept going on and on. I kept waiting for it to get interesting but it just never got off the ground. As a former long-time cutter, i was seriously disappointed.p

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1Katherine1

Posted September 8, 2009

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Very interesting

Patricia McCormick wrote a very interesting novel on a girl who cuts herself. Callie, a young adult, blames herself for her families problems. Her brother Sam had really bad asthma, which makes her mother worried and always busy. Her dad has to work more so he can get more money to pay for everything. Callie lives at Sea Pines, or as the girls there call it "Sick Minds" rehabilatation center. At first Callie doesn't talk and doesn't care about cutting herself, but over time Callie starts talking to other people and another girl who cuts herself comes and tries to keep her down, but with the help of the other girls their and her pyschologist, Callie finally realizes that the problems at home are not her fault and finally wants to get better. Callie becomes closer to her dad and the rest of her family. Patricia's book was an easy which I would recommend because it shows the true meaning of family and how you shouldn't be so hard on yourself about problems.

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Anonymous

Posted February 7, 2009

This book can cause harm.

My 13 year old daughter read this book before I knew she had it. She got the idea that she could ease her pain from everyday teeenagerhood by cutting herself. Thank you so much Patricia for the theapy bills.

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Anonymous

Posted September 17, 2008

Well, its Cut, now isn't it?

This novel let's people who not only have experienced this sort of thing, but gives insight and help to people who know someone who's doing this to themselves. Cut is a definite read.

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Anonymous

Posted December 6, 2004

BEWARE- Children are impressionable!

It is a great story into the mental issuses and struugles this young girl goes through but A young impressionable girl like my own (5th grader) got this book in her school library (her friends were all talking about it). So my daughter decided it would be cool to try!!! SHE CUT HERSELF! I am not just blamming the book. I am taking this very seriously. However, I do not think this is appropriate reading material for children under 15!!!

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Anonymous

Posted February 16, 2012

To all current and ex cutters

Im a cutter. Theres nothing wrong with it. Its just another coping skill. As long as youre not cutting dangerously close to your major veins then you are perfectly fine. Thrres nothing wrong with you even though i know the media always makes it seem like cutters are crazy people dont worry youre not. If you have anything to say back to me reply @cutter.
Hope this will help some if yall.

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Anonymous

Posted February 1, 2012

@teen

I cut for a while. Im 14 now you shouldnt be going through this at such a young age. Im in therapy now. There is a better way for you. You have to think of bettef ways to cope. Me ? I listen to music or write to stop myself. If you just tell yourself that you are better than that & believe it, you can do it.

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RavenclawStudent

Posted April 9, 2009

Cut

Callie seems like a normal fifteen year old, but she is hiding a dark secret: her addiction to self-injury. A substitute nurse sees the scars from where Callie cut herself and Callie is sent to a residential treatment facility called Sea Pines. At Sea Pines, or "Sick Minds" as the "guests" have nicknamed it, there are girls with food disorders and drug addictions, but no one, until Amanda comes, self-injures like Callie. Callie has selective mutism and refuses to talk at all. Callie can only stay silent for so long.
I have read this book multiple times. The first time I read it, I looked at Callie from her therapist's point of view. The next few times I read the book looking from Callie's point of view. She is very easy to relate to. The writing didn't seem as though it was coming from a fifteen year old though.In conclusion, Cut is about a teenage girl overcoming the addictive trials that is self-injury. I highly recommend this book.Cut is a great book, but the writing could have been more accurate to a fifteen year old's thoughts.

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SJKessel

Posted March 25, 2009

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Cut

McCormick, P. (2000). Cut. New York: Push.

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While ya gotta respect McCormick for repeatedly exploring some of the toughest issues for young adult girls out there, I feel like Cut doesn't focus on cutting enough to warrant it making the title. Sure the narrator is put in a facility because she is a cutter, but her group mates who are there for an assortment of reasons interested me just as much, when I could keep straight who each one was. (Students may need to chart each character and track their characteristics. For reals, it's so easy to get these girls confused!)

McCormick does a wonderful job of constructing Callie's character, although I did expect her to have experienced more trauma than what was described in the book.

In this short book, there is a small commentary about the perception of cutter's by most people and the medical community. McCormick confronts that general assumptions and misunderstandings by presenting multiple people and a second girl who cuts herself for different reasons.

Despite my extensive consideration of cutting here, the majority of the book is more focused on the aspects of life that are haunting Callie and her journey to deciding to get better.

My favorite part is that the entire book is written in second-person direct addresses to the reader, as though he or she is the psychiatrist working with Callie.

Activities to do with the book:

This book is good for starting discussions on issues of cutting, bulimia, anorexia, insanity, drug addiction, familial pressures, ways of dealing with problems, dealing with stress over a sick relative, expressions of emotions, etc.

Also, the ending is fairly ambiguous, so students could write letters to the characters asking how they are doing or they could write their own continuations.

Students could also write a letter as Callie's psychiatrist as a response to the book. Or they could construct the character of "you" based on the few clues present in the text.

Favorite Quotes:

"You say it's up to me to do the talking" (p. 1).

"The people at Sick Minds were still trying to figure out what to do with me" (p. 11).

"There's a lot of crying here at night. Since there are no doors on any of the rooms, the crying-or moaning, or sobbing-floats out into the hallway. Sometimes I lie in bed imagining a river of sobs flowing by, leaving little puddles of misery on each threshold" (p. 27).

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queso16

Posted March 20, 2009

Marissa- Review for Cut

Callie is fifteen. Her life is becoming a whirl wind of stress and the only escape, the only relief is to cut. When Callie is taken away to a treatment facility she joins other girls with all types of problems. Her therapist tries to help Callie. There's just one problem; Callie doesn't talk. But when new problems arise in the facility; with others and herself then Callie speaks. She can't be silent forever.
This author doesn't use many literary devices but here are some that stood out:

Personification- The room is dead quiet .

Simile- You lean forward, place a box of tissues in front of me, and your black leather chair groans like a living thing.

Simile- "This new girl, Amanda, she wears shorts and flip-flops like it's the middle of summer."

My favorite part of the book is when Callie finally speaks for the first time. It's as if there's a small glimmer of hope arising in her that maybe she can get help. At first she doesn't even know this is what's happening but later on she realizes that she really is worth the saving; that with the others to help her she really can stop cutting and live her life the way she wants to. What Callie does doesn't make her a bad person, and when she finally understands that, that's when her true story begins.
The worst part of the book is when she runs away from the facility. For the first time you truly believe that she wants the help; that she's getting better. But then, just like that, she's dashing down the hallways, through the laundry room, and out the door to the outside. She just keeps running until she reaches the road side and calls her father. I almost got disappointed; not in the book but in Callie. I felt like she was giving up; like she had made the wrong choice to getting better. Her dad meets her at a Dunkin' Donuts, and for a while they just talk. I truly believed that she would just leave Sea Pines (the facility) and go home. She couldn't have possibly gotten the help if she didn't go back. But it took her to leave to realize what she really wanted; help.

I would most definitely recommend this book. This book isn't just about a facility full of stubborn girls with problems. It's about the people finding themselves and realizing that not only do they need help, but they have people there who want to help. They are not worthless like they always thought. You will feel the things the characters feel; sadness, hate, confusion, unloved, worthless, a waste of time. But most importantly, you come to understand that they are people, too. This is one of the rare books that make one want to change. To be more selfless and to help others help themselves. This book is a journey for not only Callie, but the reader.

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Anonymous

Posted November 24, 2008

Never in my life.

This book was slow and boring;
page after page I turned to find nothing
more intresting than a girl going to a therapist
talking about her brother who had ashtma,
its nothing I expected.
I regret reading it, a waste of time it was.
I could summarize it in one sentence,
" a girl goes to a mental hospital after cutting, she never talks
she opens up runs away and goes back. "
END OF STOPRY.
Super Dissapointing.

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Anonymous

Posted July 29, 2008

~Cut~

I loved this book, i used to cut, and well. i noe somewhat f what Callie is going through.I couldn't have asked for a better reading book.The ending was amazing, and im so proud of Callie for doing what she does. if you haven't read this book,u need to move it up to ur #1 spot.! i loved this book.!

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Anonymous

Posted September 9, 2008

Age

Overall, this book was okay. I am sixteen years old. I think that it has a good message. And I am proud of the main character, Callie. However, I think I would like the book better if I was younger. It just all depends on how old your are.

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Anonymous

Posted May 18, 2008

re-read.

this book was great when i was in the seventh grade. i re-read it this year as a ninth grader and i'm not impressed. so when considering this book take into consideration your age, interests, and own personal experiences.

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Anonymous

Posted May 19, 2008

ugh.

this was the worst book i've ever read. in my opinion, it makes cutting a joke, because the main character has no big reason for cutting. it's stupid and just fuels the emo attention seeking, and ignores the deep feelings of those who actually feel the need to cut.

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Anonymous

Posted May 24, 2008

A reviewer

Cut is an awsome book that identifies the true feelings that may go through a girls mind that cuts herself. Callie is a troubled teenaged girl that keeps to herself when she has to go to Sea Pines. When she cuts herself she explains how it releases all anger, pain, and other emotions bodled inside of her. It releases them in a way she almost can't explain. It is a wonderful book and I recomend it to anyone that wants to read a book with a great deal of understanding what a teenaged girl really goes through.

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Anonymous

Posted May 15, 2008

Cut

Cut goes through the point of view story of Callie in her stay at Sea Pines but to her its 'sick minds.' She's sent there after being discovered that she cuts herself. While there she doesn't say a word but starts to slowly come out of her shell, gets to know the other girls and confronts her troubles including her father. What I liked was the writing style and how Callie begun talking again and the ending was great and give you a hint that she really wants to stop cutting. Read this at least once and decide whether you think its a good book or not but yes it is a sad thing when it comes to certain hard to talk about issues.

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Anonymous

Posted March 19, 2008

Okay

this book would probobly be okay for other people, but personally it didnt keep my intrest I tried to keep reading it but it just didnt click. buy at your own risk.

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FOR CUTTERS

A Disappointment....

Major Disappointment

Very interesting

This book can cause harm.

Well, its Cut, now isn't it?

BEWARE- Children are impressionable!

To all current and ex cutters

@teen

Cut

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Marissa- Review for Cut

Never in my life.

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re-read.

ugh.

A reviewer

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