Earlier in the month he'd even spoken to a bespectacled blackgirl on a bus, said, "So, you're into photosynthesis", and she'd actually lowered her issue of Cell and said, "Yes, I am."
-Junot Diaz, from his latest book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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