"Maureen McHugh - Interview - On Any Given Day" - читать интересную книгу автора (McHugh Maureen F)

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Emma:

I was fourteen when I lost my virginity. I was drunk, and there was this guy named Luis, he was giving
me these drinks that taste like melon, this green stuff that everybody was drinking when they could get it.
He said he really liked all my Egyptian stuff and he kept playing with my slave bracelet. The bracelet has
chains that go to rings you wear on your thumb, your middle finger and your ring finger. ? Can you be my
slave?? he kept asking and at first I thought that was funny because he was the one bringing me drinks,
you know? But we kept kissing and then we went into the bedroom and he felt my breasts and then he
wanted to have sex. I felt as if I'd led him on, you know? So I didn't say no.

I saw him again a couple of times after that, but he didn't pay much attention to me. He was older and he
didn't go to my school. I regret it. I wish it had been a little more special and I was really too young.

Sometimes I thought that if I were a boy I'd be one of those boys who goes into school one day and
starts shooting people.

(Music-"Poor Little Rich Girl? by Tony Bennett.)

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Interviewer:

What's a culture freak?

Emma:

You're kidding, right? This is for the interview? Okay, in my own words.

A culture freak is a person who really likes other cultures, and listens to culture freak bands and doesn't
conform to the usual sort of jumpsuit or Louis Vitton wardrobe thing. So I'm into Egyptian a lot, in a
spiritual way, too. I tell Tarot Cards. They're really Egyptian, people think they're Gypsy but I read about
how they're actually way older than that and I have an Egyptian deck. My friend Lindsey is like me, but
my other friend, Denise, is more into Indian stuff. Lindsey and I like Indian, too, and sometimes we'll all
henna our hands.

Interviewer:

Do you listen to culture freak music?

Emma:

I like a lot of music, not just culture music. I like Black Helicopters, I really like their New World Order
cdm, because it's really retro and paranoid. I like some of the stuff my mom and dad like, too, Tupac and
Lauryn Hill. I like the band Shondonay Shaka Zulu. It's got a lot of drone. I like that.

(Music-"My Favorite Things? by John Coltrane.)

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