I Just Want to Be Alone

by Jen Mann · 2014

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The second volume in the best-selling I Just Want to Pee Alone series!

Don't get us wrong, we love the men in our lives - we do (most of the time). It's just that sometimes we would like them to go away. Not forever or anything like that. Just for an hour ... or a day ... or a weekend. We want some time to ourselves to read a good book or take a walk or do anything other than try to make a dent in the never ending mound of dirty clothes that keeps piling up on the floor on his side of the bed. We just want to be alone. All alone. Is that too much to ask?

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I Just Want to Be Alone is a collection of humorous essays from 37 of the most Super Cool Lady Writers you'll find on the web. Including: People I Want to Punch in the Throat, Baby Sideburns, A.K. Turner, My Husband Ate All My Ice Cream, and Bad Parenting Moments.

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humorhumorMore like thisLess of thiswomen’s fictionwomen’s fictionMore like thisLess of this
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parentingparentingMore like thisLess of this
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2010s2010sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 205 pages
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