Could you please help me with the meaning of the underlined part?
A: Has it ever occurred to you that I'm not okay, that everything in my life is so embarrassing, that I got knocked up twice by two different guys and had two divorces and two affairs that were-are-not only a nightmare but also a cliche and that I'm broke and writing a shitty little book about boats that nobody wants to publish and sleeping around with men who... *** ooze nicotine into their sheets from their entire bodies so they leave outlines like dead-
B: What?
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The speaker breaks off, so we will never know what dead things she is talking about. The sentence might have ended "like dead cats on a white sidewalk" or "like dead Jesus on the Shroud of Turin".
- The speaker breaks off, so we will never know what dead things she is talking about.
- The sentence might have ended "like dead cats on a white sidewalk" or "like dead Jesus on the Shroud of Turin".
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The speaker breaks off, so we will never know what dead things she is talking about. The sentence might have ended "like dead cats on a white sidewalk" or "like dead Jesus on the Shroud of Turin".
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