Go on, take what you need. A perfect mystery, a mouthful of poetry, stories of glamour-pusses and ghouls, soul-searchers, scoundrels, trailblazers, sassy grandmothers, and babes in the wood. O serves up a smorgasbord of the season's best.

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From the July 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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