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Citizen Girl: Authors, Give Me My Money Back Now!
I love bargains. Don't we all? During a shopping trip at St. Francis Square, I thought I struck gold when I unearthed a hardcover copy of Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus for only 300 pesos. The inside jacket cover promised me a story that involves "Working in a world where a college degree qualifies her to make photocopies and color-coordinate file folders, twenty-four year old Girl is struggling to keep up with the essential trinity of food, shelter, and student loans." A fictional story on the perils of being a young twenty-something in the modern working world! I've yet to encounter anything like this - for only three hundred bucks. What a bargain, right?

Well, let me tell you something about bargains. A bargain is when you pay a low price for an item whose awesomeness makes it worth ten times the price you originally paid for, you fucking cheapskate. When the said item lets you down, no matter how dirt-cheap you got it for, that's not a bargain. That's downright robbery.

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