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way her mother is so men will want to look at her and touch her. She wants to someday be able to please a man with her body the way she believes her mother can. She eventually learns that love, the thing she most wants, has nothing to do with the physical and everything to do with what's inside a person and that love is most intensely communicated not through words, but through a person's eyes.

As they await they day when they'll be released from their prison, Chris and Cathy grow older and their children's bodies change into the bodies of adults. Long matured in their minds, as they were forced immediately to play the role of mother and father to their twin brother and sister, much younger, it should come as no surprise that they developed a deep love for one another. As they grew, and their hormones began to rage, they began to see each other quite differently, culminating in one passionate, yet disturbing, sexual encounter that they swore to never repeat.

From the beginning, the incestuous encounter between Chris and Cathy was foreshadowed in the way they spoke to one another, stolen glances at the other's body, sweet and innocent kisses, no modesty and no need for modesty (but with dire consequences if caught) and the overwhelming need to comfort and be comforted. The older Chris got, the more he became obsessed with his physical needs. As Cathy grew up, her obsession was love. Pretty typical, but with no outlets for the things they were feeling, they had no one to turn to but each other one of the saddest things about their whole ordeal.

There are certain scenes in this book I have never forgotten, and I found, as I neared those scenes again, I approached them with dread. Those who are familiar with the book will know the ones I'm talking about: powdered sugar doughnuts, the slashing of the wrist, the rape and the chapter called "Color All Days Blue But Save One For Black." To this day I can't eat powdered sugar doughnuts without thinking of Flowers in the Attic. It is a classic, one of my favorite novels of all time.

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