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Comparison Between Noah And Noah: The Caricature Of Noah
By contrast, Noah simply stood under the hot water, letting it roll off his flesh in beads. He was seventeen and scrawny; a caricature of an adolescent misfit who, like Carrie White, looked the part of the sacrificial goat. His long wet hair hung in messy strands, obscuring his face and neck until all that could seen was a thin slit of pale flesh and two sunken-in eyes void of any emotion.
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