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The many prescription medications the narrator takes to facilitate her hibernation project represent the fine line between self-care and self-indulgence or self-destruction. Once the narrator formulates her plan to transform herself and improve her life…
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The narrator’s VCR—and the media she consumes throughout her hibernation in general—symbolizes her self-delusion. Whenever the narrator cannot physically force herself to sleep, she watches TV shows or movies in a semi-conscious, drug-induced…
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