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Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs — WisdomDeck honest review
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Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

Burroughs's memoir of a chaotic adolescence handed over to his mother's eccentric psychiatrist. Darkly funny and disturbing; a survival story told with style.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Survive first.
  2. Humor is armor.
  3. Write it down later.

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Burroughs's childhood.

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