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    I Look Better In Binary
    I Look Better In Binary
    I Look Better In Binary
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    I Look Better In Binary

    By Becky M. Pourchot

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    In the Midwest of the 1980s...

    being a Jewish girl meant trying to resolve your accidental love of ham with your desire to follow the rules and be a good kid. I Look Better In Binary tells the tale of writer Becky Pourchot's adventures through puberty with poignancy and side-splitting humor. In a series of engaging stories, a picture unfolds of a thoughtful, creative, funny, and slightly neurotic girl who's learning her way through the world one embarrassing experience at a time. This collection contains the unique, but also familiar stories of growing up, facing fears, and, in the process, discovering who we really are.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBecky M. Pourchot
    Release dateNov 2, 2011
    ISBN9781465770172
    I Look Better In Binary
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    Becky M. Pourchot

    This wasn't really the plan...I mean this author thing. I was supposed to be out in the world saving sick birds or helping people laid out on a couch find their inner child. I was supposed to be living in some little unknown town-- like Waunaukee, Wisconsin or Newton, Iowa, watching my imaginary husband play in his imaginary band, with my two kids dressed so sweetly. Yet here I am in Flagler Beach, Florida of all places, with a husband who doesn't play guitar and kids who choose their own clothes. I am not bandaging sparrows wings or mending broken hearts, but writing books that seems to draw out the inner child in me. Not much of this was part of the plan, but what ever is?

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