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title: "Because They Wanted To"
author: "Mary Gaitskill"
genre: "Literary Fiction, Short Stories"
category: "Fiction"
themes: "Desire and Emotion;Human Relationships;Identity and Misidentification;The Nature of Self"
isbn_13: "9781439127971"
isbn_10: "1439127972"
asin: "0684841444"
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data_license: "CC BY-NC 4.0"
---

# Because They Wanted To

## Context
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