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Posted on November 6, 2010 by mizparker

Briony is, like many young and imaginative teens, a little selfish and very much wrapped up in her own world. She is in the phase between childhood and adulthood where she understands little of the adult world, but imagines it vividly and knows just enough to be dangerous.

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