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My Friend Leonard by James Frey

My Friend Leonard

by James Frey
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  • First Published:
  • Jun 1, 2005, 368 pages
  • Paperback:
  • May 2006, 416 pages
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I love Lilly. I love her blue eyes and her black hair and her pale skin. I love her damaged heart. I love what lives inside of her a spirit a soul a consciousness whatever it is I love it. I want to live with it for the rest of my life. I will do anything.

I get out of here in three days.

Three more fucking days.

I lie in bed and I wait.

In the deep night.

Three.

From My Friend Leonard by James Frey. Copyright James Frey 2005. All rights reserved. No part of this book maybe reproduced without written permission from the publisher.

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