Fiction | December 01, 2003
Islamadora
Lissa Franz
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The women of the office gather around Pilar’s desk to play Who Has the Worst Children. The higher up they are in the office hierarchy, the more offensive and shocking their offspring. Allison, Pilar’s boss and the CEO of the company, has four-year-old twin boys who dumb Hershey’s syrup on the couch and call each other “shit-head.”
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