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Mel is Currently Reading

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Snowflake Creek Box Set: Books 1-3 (Snowflake Creek Bundles)

by Olivia Noble (Goodreads Author)

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Maplewood Bay Cozy Mystery Box Set Books 1-3

by Kaylynn Smith

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Cruise Chaos (Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, #3)

by A.R. Winters

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Mel’s Quotes

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

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“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

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“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

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“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

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