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I highly recommend reading this book, it's definitely worth it if you're a woman in your 20s still figuring life out. I laughed, gasped and cried.

I found the first half to be a bit confusing especially with all the time jumps. At one point she's 20 and then rewind to when Dolly is 15 and the fast forward to the next boyfriend, I got quite lost.
The 2nd half of the book I loved. It's written so intimately I felt like I was really seeing inside Dolly's 20-something head and holding onto every bit of advice she gave.

I'm 22 now but maybe I'll reread this book in a year or 2 and see if there's more I can take from it. At the moment all I can think is I wish I had the love of a friendship group like Dolly's.

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4.25

I actually love this book!!! I was a bit surprised at that because to be honest, I didn't know it was an autobiographical memoir before I started and I found Dolly's lifestyle hard to relate to. But she has a way of making her words flow and enrapturing you in her stories that is just magical. Despite reading about this lifestyle that felt so distant from me, there were moments where a specific lesson or sentence would defy logic and make me think that there is nothing truer than what I just read. The pacing confused me at the beginning but I ended up really enjoyed the all-over-the-place anthology nature of the book. My favorite stories have to be of Farly and Florence, and how Dolly writes about them with this undeniably genuine love and affection. My takeaways largely have to do with the preciousness of that friendship and as I enter my 20s and various friendships shift in form, Dolly reassures that change is not a sign of a weakening relationship. It's just different. I think I'll look back on this with a little more reverence in the future, but for now, it was a highly enjoyable and funny read that I am happy to have encountered at this point in my life.

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