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Augusten Burroughs was twelve years old when his mother gave him away to be raised by his unorthodox psychiatrist who lived in a world in which rules wre unheard of and pedophile resided in the backyard shed. //Running with Scissors// is Burrough's painfully funny and unforgettable account of his outlaw childhood.

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