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I Was a Child

by Bruce Eric Kaplan · 2015

Here is the first non-fiction book by Bruce Eric Kaplan. It is a book wholly unique in form and feeling. This memoir is both full of wonder and anxiety, and is altogether side-splitting and heart-breaking.

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Above all, it captures what it was like for Bruce Eric Kaplan, and perhaps some of you, to be a child.

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