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How to Write a Funny Speech...: for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every Other Event You Didn't Want to Go to in the First Place

by Carol Leifer

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The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4) by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”

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“I chose Van Gogh.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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