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A Year in Reading: Monica Heisey

I always think I am not reading enough, but it occurs to me this may be an issue of comparison. For years I considered myself a very short person with a very small rack, when really I just have a disproportionate number of tall friends with huge tits. In fact, I am five foot six and a half, wear a 36DD, and read forty-seven books in 2022. Next to the year-end lists of other writers in this series, this figure may seem small, even risible, but on its own, I think it may be fine. Remember, this is in addition to a number of screenplays, more emails than I would like, and a frankly embarrassing quantity of

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