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Dec.30.2011
Recently, someone said something to me that she shouldn’t have said. It was a terrible thing to say. I will never be able to get it out of my head.
I am so angry. Now I am stuck knowing something I don’t want to know.
I get my feelings hurt easily. I obsess...
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Dec.19.2011
I’ve been thinking a lot about clothes, which has made me think about age, which has made me think about writing.
I love clothes, even though I’ve mostly worn jeans and black turtlenecks and boots for years. I love shopping and looking at street-style blogs and watching “Project Runway...
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Nov.21.2011
Nineteen seventy-seven was a big year for me. A lot happened. Some of it was wonderful and some of it wasn’t, which can probably be said about most years.
I was 19 and 20 in 1977, a college student living 3,000 miles away from home most of the year.These are some of the things that...
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Willner-Pardo's exploration of personal fears and desires as well as familial relationships and responsibilities resonates with authenticity”
—Kirkus Reviews
About gina
Gina Willner-Pardo was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and knew from a very early age that she wanted to be a writer. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. While raising two...