The book I got for Christmas: ‘An emotional bootcamp of sorts’

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The book I got for Christmas: ‘An emotional bootcamp of sorts’
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Continuing our series of Guardian writers revealing their most memorable gift books, Rebecca Liu recalls being given a stack of dating guides as an 18-year-old whose ‘lessons’ were hard to unlearnPlease share your most memorable bookish presents below and we will publish a selection later this week

hristmas was not traditional in my family growing up, so presents were intermittent. But the year I turned 18, I was welcomed into adulthood by a bumper stack of bestselling 90s dating books: Why Men Love Bitches and Men Are from Mars, Women are from Venus . I had not known, until then, that I came across as the loneliest teenager in the world.

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