California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.
S. E. HintonAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: July 22, 1948
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