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How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities

Part of The Decades of a Woman's Life series

COLLECTION OF 24 BRIEF POEMS WITH SUCH TITLES AS "SOME FOLKS GET FAT DRINKING FRESCA," "EATING MY HEART OUT," AND "SOME PEOPLE'S CHILDREN."

Genre
humor
Themes
agingrelationships
Audience
adult
Form
poetry

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