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Melissa B.

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Born and raised in the Midwest, Melissa has a penchant for growing her own food garden, haphazard traveling preferably near oceans, and avoiding winter.

Married with two children and a smelly dog, an average mom that appreciates the finer things in life ... while attempting to turn many of them into some organic version of their original self.

A lover of memoirs and historical fiction books she much prefers a hard cover to a paperback although she has a ridiculous amount of TBR titles on her kindle that is perpetually in need of charging.

When not attending a neighborhood book club chat or activities for her kids, Melissa blogs about current events, societal mishaps, family holidays, and bad customer service experiences.

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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx