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Friday, March 11, 2005
From the New Yorker
ID: 120674, Published in The New Yorker March 14, 2005 To order click here.
Very funny!
ReplyDeleteBTW, thanks for mentioning Heir Apparent; I read it last night and am looking forward to sharing it with my girls.
Liza Q