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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Surely I was the only 11 year old dry humping herself while reading Flowers in the Attic?!?[/quote]
You were not the only one.[/quote]

Nope, I'm sure plenty of others, and then there was Forever by Judy Blume which was a personal favorite to steal from my older sister. Ah, Ralph. IYKNK.

For younger ages, there was Then Again, Maybe I Won't , Deenie, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Are those still allowed?

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I read Ordinary People the summer before 8th grade. Talk about your trigger warnings. Generally speaking, if the kids are reading, they're thinking, and they're going to be alright.[/quote]
They are, but I happened onto a Time Magazine article about FGM when I was about 8 or 9 (I loved reading magazines for adults; it always felt like I was learning secrets). That one scared me pretty badly and I didn’t have a relationship with my parents such that I could ask for more background and context.

Still - banning books and targeting librarians is wrong on all levels. This is literally the kind of stuff the right wing tutted about Muslim extremists doing in the early 2000s. Evidently they were taking inspiration rather than actually being upset.

Come to think of it, they did blow up the Georgia Guidestones. Extremists use the same stupid playbook all over. [/quote]

We sound like the same kind of kid. I would sneak and read my parents' copy of Helter Skelter around the age of 12 or 13. With kids' access to the internet today, it's amazing to me that parents would spend time trying to ban a handful of books in the library that they find objectionable. Actually, it's not amazing to me at all, now that I've typed that out. It's 100% about the agenda, not the kids.[/quote]

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