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I was exploring Amazon.com when I noticed that their bestselling books in the science fiction and fantasy genre is a young adult series involving vampires. Vampires. I remember young adult books. I used to read them when I was, well, a young adult. I don’t seem to remember vampires being involved. Then again, I used to read stuff by Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, and Ellen Conford. They wrote funny, sweet, or sometimes romantic books that dealt with the subject of…

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Every year, my friend Susi participates in Revlon’s Run/Walk for Women. It’s an event to help in the cause to fight women’s cancers, a cause to which she is personally dedicated because cancer touches all the women in her family. I’ve sponsored her nearly every year since I’ve known her, and every year she raises her goal. Even her daughter participates. This year, to help them out, I thought I’d go one step further than simply donating and help spread…

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It’s my 35th birthday today, and it wasn’t bad. I didn’t turn suddenly into a desperate housewife who had to do the gardener or anything, and I managed not to turn this day into my 6th anniversary of my 29th birthday. H.E. didn’t leave me for a younger woman, though he did admit to me that he lusted over a 34-year-old woman yesterday. He’s so totally over it now. I got everything I wanted today. Love. Money. Power. I know…

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H.E. and I both have a sibling who was born on this day, the first of April. If that doesn’t make us kindred spirits, then I guess our lack of a third nipple will just have to do. I’ll tell you a secret: I’ve never played an April Fool’s Day joke on anyone, at least not that I can recall. I’m not much of a prankster—I guess because I don’t think I’d like anyone to pull a prank on me—so…

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I’m resigned to the idea that I have freckles. They aren’t anything that I’ve had all my life, and except for a very light dusting on my sister’s nose, which I think are cute, they aren’t a common feature in my family either. In fact, I didn’t think it was possible that I even could have freckles and thought at first I must be getting liver spots much earlier in life than anyone could possibly expect. But aside from my…

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