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Oh, well I mean, that’s a loaded question right there. (She sniffs.)

Pip:

What do you mean?

Jess:

Um, I don’t know if dysfunctional is quite the right word. People use that as a funny kind of accolade. I’d mean it in the proper sense. Like they weren’t quite normal. I mean, they were normal enough; they seemed normal unless you spent a lot of time there, like I did. And I picked up on a lot of little things that you wouldn’t have noticed if you didn’t live among the Bells.

Pip:

What do you mean by not quite normal?

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