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you remind me of you: a poetry memoir | eireann corrigan

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This was the first PUSH book I purchased, and it’s been read so many times I own two copies, because the first one is held together with scotch tape.

For some people this would probably be a really sad book, but that’s not what I take away from it.

Eireann Corrigan led a fairly priveleged life as a teen: Private School, bent rules. But the other side of that coin was the pressure that came with said life, and the years spent in hospital wards. The struggle to decide to make it in the world.

When her first boyfriend shoots himself and the next drives into a tree, she concludes it must be her.

Through these poems she relates her story. The trials, the triumphs, the small steps and the large, the love and the disillusionment. And the lessons so hardly learned.

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