What I Thought I Knew by Alice Eve Cohen - Excerpt

What I Thought I Knew: Excerpts

Chapter One: Stage Fright

By Alice Eve Cohen
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the July 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Read an excerpt from What I Thought I Knew by Alice Eve Cohen, one of O's bounteous books of summer 2009.

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