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The book tells the story of burroughss bizarre childhood life after his mother. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Running with scissors book scissors an instrument used for cutting cloth, paper, and other thin material, consisting of two blades laid one on top of the other and fastened in the middle so as to allow them to be opened and closed by a thumb and finger inserted through rings on the end of their handles. Running with scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother a poet with delusions of anne sexton gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for santa and a lunatic in the bargain. During most of this time augusten lives with the family of his mothers rather unorthodox psychiatrist. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of running with scissors by augusten burroughs. Augusten states, all summer id taken the pvta bus back and forth between my mothers house in amherst and my room in northampton. If fen runs with scissors then fen will be sent to time out and get bored.

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