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holes, beauty and the beast, pi, requiem for a dream, ju-on, napoleon dynamite, pulp fiction, breakfast at tiffanys

"Goddamnit, I've never been "the pretty friend.", The Pretty Friend.Shudder. Shiver. Smash., She's the one who wears the perfect eyeliner, it never gathers like a crowd in her tear ducts to create a grapefruit-size ebony eye booger., The one who can wear a bodysuit, sit down in it, and not have rolls of fat cascading over her belt., The one who can eat a sandwich or hamburger and not wind up with lipstick on the bun or on her chin., The one who can actually eat in front of other people and not have food, like coleslaw, hanging from her lip or shooting out of her mouth, landing on the plates of other diners., She never spits when she talks., She sleeps with her mouth shut and never drools., She doesn't pick at her face., And she never, ever has to take a shit., ..., But I'm not sure this is my fault., Pretty friends always have cute names, like Nicole, Colleen, Dionne, or Jamie. So I figure this pretty-friend thing has to start fairly early, like when you're born and named. That decides it right there. My mother did a better job naming her dogs, Cali and Cory, than she did me, Laurie Ann, and I have to live longer. I can't even shorten my name to something like Lauri, I would just end up making myself plural. There you go. It was set in stone in 1965. I was destined to be the Ugly Friend, the nurses looked at me in that bassinet and sadly shook their heads., 'The poor thing, that Laurie Ann, ' one nurse said. 'She was decent-looking when she first came in as 'Baby Girl Notaro, ' but look at her now. That thing just sprouted thick black hair on her toes.', 'Ugh, gives me the shivers, ' the other nurse replied. 'Look at how her pores are expanding. Is that a boil or a goiter on her chin? When she grows up, I'll bet money that she snorts when she laughs and can eat three pounds of pork products in one sitting.', 'I'll bet she'll be a loud-mouthed drunk, ' the first nurse added. 'Let's move her to that dark corner away from the pretty babies, Molly and Michelle. We don't want her to ruin them.'", - The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, Laurie Notaro, Also: The Little Princess, The Trolley, anything by David Sedaris, The Catcher in the Rye, every Douglas Adams book (he wrote more than the Guide), Lolita, The Confusions of Young Torless, The Eye, Labyrinth, many many more.