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    The Disappearing Act: Journey of How a Poetess Grew up Within a Matter of Five Years.
    The Disappearing Act: Journey of How a Poetess Grew up Within a Matter of Five Years.
    The Disappearing Act: Journey of How a Poetess Grew up Within a Matter of Five Years.
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    The Disappearing Act: Journey of How a Poetess Grew up Within a Matter of Five Years.

    By April Frances Federico

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 12, 2021
    ISBN9781664162174
    The Disappearing Act: Journey of How a Poetess Grew up Within a Matter of Five Years.

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      The Disappearing Act - April Frances Federico

      Copyright © 2021 by April Frances Federico.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 03/05/2021

      Xlibris

      844-714-8691

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      CONTENTS

      Prologue

      A Letter to Henry David Thoreau: The Introduction

      Anniversaries

      April

      Barbarians

      Science Lesson

      Silhouette

      The Gettysburg Address

      The Process of Loving Another Human

      The Carrie Bradshaw Theory

      Thick Thighs and Trying Times

      The Lioness

      Manly Stew for the Sexist Soul

      Ten Commandments of Where You Live

      Audrey Hepburn’s Ambassadorship with UNICEF

      Princess Diana’s interview with BBC’s Martin Bashir

      Sobriety

      Being bullied is like being on a Witch Trial

      Stop Telling Girls How to Dress

      The Coloring Book of Mental Illness

      Built to Collapse

      The Taboo of Wearing a Black Thong

      There’s No The End For This Princess

      Rendition of the red-hot satin, seventh grade semiformal dress on Christmas day

      Closing Story: A Good Story is Hard to Tell (with apologies to Flannery O’Connor)

      Reader: If you told me where I would be in five years,

      I would’ve thought you were absolutely nutty.

      To Victor and Patty, my favorites.

      Many a time she thought she could just sit down and write a book. Many a time she thought it’d be easy. She thought she could handle the Carrie Bradshaw (the AnnaSophia Robb portrayal) life, until she realized it wasn’t going to lead her to New York, at least not right away. Until one night, she

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