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Harrison's preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. The household was grim. Grandmother would scream like a "scalded infant"; mother, who lived elsewhere most of the time, beat her daughter with a hairbrush. The child herself was unlikable. There is an unintentionally risible passage where she pries open the eyes of newborn kittens. The teenage years are marked by anorexia ("the dizzy rapture of starving") and bulimia ("I never taste what I eat. Sometimes...
Finally, Santos recommends that groups designate a contact person; personalizing the request in the eyes of the foundation is always a plus...
...source of the illnesses is not known at this time. UHS officials urge any student who ate at Hillel Saturday and who is experiencing symptoms to contact UHS or the OEHS...
Students might also want to contact a counselor for more personal advice. The Bureau of Study Counsel offers academic and personal counseling, and counselors at the Office of Health Education on the second floor of UHS are available to dispense pamphlets and confidential advice...
...great reverberance, so in The Kiss (Random House; 207 pages; $20) she tries the currently fashionable route of confession. Hers: an affair with her father. Harrison?s preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. When her father re-enters her life, and they become mutually obsessed. The actual affair does not begin until a gloomy courtship by letter, tape and phone call has worn thin. The carnal phase is really an epilogue. Soon the father has shed religion...