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Saying Yes to the Book is Just Like Saying Yes to the Dress

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Saying Yes to the Book is Just Like Saying Yes to the Dress
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I’ve always tried to go in my own direction and extract fun from situations that might otherwise incite anxiety. I learned this from my mother, a painfully shy woman who’d been dubbed “the bashful blond” in school, and who also had a flair for (quietly) hosting unique gatherings. Despite a childhood filled with tragedy and an adulthood with constant disappointment and health complications, she was a practical joker who never missed April Fools Day. In what I suppose was an inheritance of her abi

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