John Robison's 'Look Me In The Eye'

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In Chapter 15 of “Look Me In The Eye” by John Robison, John spent a weekend with Varmint. Varmint came to Cleveland to initially to go shopping but John had a different plan. Whenever, Varmint asked to go to the mall...John came up with this bizarre story about how there weren’t any shopping malls because the people of Cleveland were ‘Clevites’. John told Varmint that the ‘Clevites’ were very religious people that founded the city and that they worshiped Saint Cleve, “the patron saint of harvests”. Varmint was disappointed because, he really needed new clothes, he had the adds cut into a collage for magazines with pictures from Calvin Klein Ads and etc. Unfortunately, John told Varmint that there was a ferry that he could take to Detroit in

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