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Jacqueline Abelson

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The last time that I wrote a bio about anyone was probably the biography of King Henry VIII when I was a sophomore in high school . . . in Spanish.

It was hard to decide which were the most fascinating aspects of his life, and which were just him divorcing and cutting off the heads of his wives.

But instead of writing about what I know about my good pal Henry Tudor, I now have to write a biography about myself.

I know. The horror.

Well, I can't say for certain that I've had the pleasure of marrying six wives, nor living up to Henry's success of initiating the English Reformation, and will even go as far as admitting that I did not obtain Jonathan Rhys Meyers' good looks as portrayed in the Showtime Tudors series (lucky bastard), so now the qu ...more

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Is Romance Still Alive? Or Am I Just Jaded?

Last month, Bruno Mars released his first solo album in 10 years. It's called The Romantic, which felt, at the time, like a personal promise -- a contract between the two of us. Bruno and I.

I pre-ordered it. I stayed up until midnight for the download to arrive, popped in my headphones, laid flat on my bed like a woman receiving a blood transfusion, and pressed play.

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The Unconsoled

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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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Challenged by Coeducation: Women's Colleges Since the 1960s

by Leslie Miller-Bernal

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