Subject: *Offers Lily a cookie*
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Posted on: 2012-11-28 21:49:00 UTC

I am so glad every time I meet "normal" girls who purchase this kind of media that I grew up catching frogs and reading sci-fi and fantasy and Black Beauty.

(Yeah, I read a lot of horse books when I was eight - many of them were the same, but a lot of books marketed at kids always boil down to the same standard plots, especially something that basically boils down to fantasy-fulfilment, such as horse and pony books. Still, I like to think that finding out that too many similar horse books bored me when I was eight and nine, and noticing that I could successfully predict the plot of every new Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys book that I picked up helped me grow up and stay away from the repetitive romance tripe when I was a teen. At least horse books and Nancy Drew are essentially harmless.)

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