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Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: The Outsiders (non spoiler) - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1827
Posted: Fri Apr  1 22:28:56 1983
Received: Sun Apr  3 03:13:41 1983

#R:tekmdp:-187600:uiucdcs:10700026:000:330
uiucdcs!mcewan    Apr  1 16:39:00 1983

	"It is a true (it started out as a true story anyway) story
	written by a teenager about his experiences growing up as a 
	greaser with his greaser friends."
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I don't know where you got this information, but it's totally wrong. The
story is NOT true, and S.E. Hinton is not only not a greaser, she's not
a he, either.