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The more I read Lynda Barry, the more I wonder what kind of a crazy childhood she must have had. Boys and Girls is comics depicting painfully familiar incidents from childhood, adolescence, and also adult life. A section on finding your perfect love mate cracked me up, especially the Success Begins at Home quiz:

1. Am I cheerful and clean? __Yes __No __Sort of

2. Do I want a boyfriend for the RIGHT reasons?
__I want an intellectual companion.
__I have a need to share my life.
__I want a man with a big one.

3. How is my personality and my looks?
__I am very nice and I am beautiful
__I am mean and ugly

4. Am I "too picky" about my future love-mate?
__He must be absolutely perfect
__I will take any man on earth.

The next panel on Just Who Is Mr. Right? also made me LOL. I've just put a hold on One! Hundred! Demons!, Barry's "Autobiofictionalography" because I want to know more.

Thanks to la c-dog for mailing me Girls and Boys!