Hughes' characters and stories mirrored our teen years. He captured our joy, angst, confusion and fragility in an authentic voice that treated us equally, whether jock, princess, misfit, geek, goth, or some combination of the above. For those of us in high school in the 80's, The Breakfast Club arrived during our most awkward years, assuring us that whichever of those labels people assigned, we were far more alike than different. I can't think of a better or more perfectly-timed story, more humorously told.
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