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Chapters 1 - 3

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Juliet Takes a Breath, Gabby Rivera. Dial Books, 2001.

• Chapter One starts with a quotation from Harlowe Brisbane’s Raging Flower: Empowering Your Pussy by Empowering Your Mind.

• The quotation states that everyone is born with the power of the moon, and it is “only after being commodified for our femaleness that we lose that power” (9).

• The narrator was sitting on the subway, listening to Lauryn Hill.

• The protagonist was leaving that night for Portland, Oregon, and still had to finish the mixtape she was making for her girlfriend, Lainie.

• Lainie was already away at her internship in D.C. with the College Democrats of America.

• The narrator still had to pack, eat dinner, and come out to her family; she did not have time for the train to be stalled.

• Raging Flower was...

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