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JOY! JOY! JOY! JOY! JOY! AND GREAT HEAVENS TO BETSY!
We won!
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How To Wreck Your Life
Dear E. Jean: I’m married. I love my husband dearly. We have happy children. However, I have always felt a loss because I never got to have the…
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Wait, Mary Trump writes romance?
And E. Jean Carroll helps her? I was so perplexed, I had to get them on Zoom.
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Mary Trump and I Are Collaborating on a ROMANCE Novel and Jen Taub Is Editing and We're Serializing It on Substack! YES, Re-Reader of…
The New York Times’ Alexandra Alter broke the story at 5 a.m. this morning!
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Whattya Reading?
What’s on Your Bathtub Ledge? Peerless Reader! What are you currently soaking in? Poetry? Crime? Romance? Graphics? Self Help? Memoir? Fantasy? Mystery?
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How To Change Your Life
Here I am, the Old Crone, livin’ on a mountain top, nuthin’ much happenin’, gettin’ up in the mornin’, gettin’ dressed, takin’ a selfie… And . . . BOOM…
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The Other High Heel Drops
I’m so incredibly proud of the greatest civil rights attorneys in the Nation: Robbie Kaplan! Shawn G. Crowley! Mike Ferrara! Honorable Woman, Matt…
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ATTENTION: Women . . .
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Quite a Ride!
Peerless and Unrivaled Reader! We’re all on a wild, rip-roaring ride. Before we know it, our turn will be over…..so let’s take a minute and think about…
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Whatcha Doin’ This Weekend?
Peerless and Noble Reader! We got 32 hours! What are your plans?
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Here Lies . . .
Peerless and Beauteous Reader! What’s your tombstone gonna say? Bessie Smith’s tombstone at Mount Lawn Cemetery, Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, was paid for…
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What's Your Mantra?
Do you have a holy utterance that summons your energy?
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The Gorgeous Hunk
Dear E. Jean: I'm married to a man, the likes of which you've probably never seen anywhere. He's tall, muscular, Italian, with beautiful caramel-colored…
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POOP
Peerless Reader! Vizier of the Eternal Marble! How Do You Keep Regular?
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