Elizabeth McCracken - Memoir

This Does Not Have to Be a Secret

By Elizabeth McCracken
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the August 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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An excerpt from Elizabeth McCracken's memoir, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination.

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