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After 21 years and four children, the drudgery of everyday life has dulled her relationship with her husband, Harrison. She enjoyed a promising career in television news before giving it up to raise her children.
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After 21 years and four children, the drudgery of everyday life has dulled her relationship with her husband, Harrison.
She enjoyed a promising career in television news before giving it up to raise her children.
The organization she directs, Mothers Opposing More Senselessness (MOMS), has acquired over 250,000 followers on social media.
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After 21 years and four children, the drudgery of everyday life has dulled her relationship with her husband, Harrison. She enjoyed a promising career in television news before giving it up to raise her children. The organization she directs, Mothers Opposing More Senselessness (MOMS), has acquired over 250,000 followers on social media.
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- When she meets a handsome former Marine known as Privately who served in Iraq (a man young enough to be her son), she immediately wants to make him the face of her movement.
- Jellyby (Dickens' matronly philanthropist in Bleak House), a woman so devoted to saving the children of strangers that she inadvertently neglects her own.
- The will-they-won't-they tension between Privately and Tenley powers the novel to its finish, culminating in scenes of chaste but erotically charged passion.
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Everything seems to be going wrong in Tenley Ward's life. This is an exceptional look at a latter-day Mrs. The central question readers are left with is...
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