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Naomi’s Christmas: Restorative Aloneness And A Childhood Spent In Retail

For the Mommas

I went on buying trips to New York for the fancy ladies wear shop run by one aunt (they used to model the dresses at high end shops), learned the uniform business from another aunt, and was taught the basics of the Borscht Belt hospitality business by a great cousin. But Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were really special.

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Fall Reading List

Cheap Chica's Guide To Style

Set during WWII era, become enveloped in the story of Anna Kerrigan, Brooklyn Navy Yard’s only female diver, her father Eddie Kerrigan, a union worker and man in the mob, and his boss, Dexter Styles. Looking Ahead: Reread A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle before it hits theaters March 2018! Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (Oct).

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