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Give me liberty, or give me acne, I figured acne was worse than death. Meaning of the statement?

P.70, l. 12ff

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Alex Cooper says, “Give me liberty, or give me acne!” It's kind of a teenage twist on the saying "Give me Liberty or give me death". The humour being that, for a teenager, an acne outbreak is worse that death.

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