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Dear Coquette: Who Are You?

Fewer than 10 people in the world know who this biting, straight-talking sexpert actually is—but she knows everything about you.
"The Best of Dear Coquette: Shady Advice from a Raging Bitch Who Has No Business Answering Any of These Questions," available now.
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If you bottled up Hunter S. Thompson, your beloved grandma and The Real Housewives, you’d have Coquette (formerly Coketalk), a Los Angeles party girl turned mysterious advice columnist, who’s known for her sassy, biting straight talk about nice guys, bitchy best friends, cheaters, abusers, long-lost lovers and all the sex questions you’re too embarrassed to ask your best friend...or anyone.

Coquette is the person you turn to when you “fucking hate your roommate” even though you “fucked her twice” and “need a strategy to get through the next few months.” (Answer: “Maybe your identity as a self-proclaimed asshole isn’t the way to go…. Spend the next few months being kind, thoughtful, and generous. See if your whole world doesn’t change.”) Or when you cheated on your boyfriend with your married best friend. (Answer: “You hit the self-destruct button on your life. Why? There’s a reason you fucked up this big. Figure it out.”) And what about when you realize that every time you think about your father—who’s alive and well—you feel sad, and you wonder if it’s “because I love him and never tell him I do?” (Answer:

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