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Harlan, Kentucky, The United States

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Ginger Pennington is the lead singer of California punk band Local Bylaws, mother of boy-girl twins, an adoptee, actress, and, to begin with, a coal miner's daughter from Harlan, Kentucky. She wrote Stolen Santa Monica to better understand what happened in her life during 2013, and she'll probably write a memoir later that puts the narrative into a wider context as the "truth." ...more

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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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