The Woman Who Makes Shopping Meaningful

The Good-Buy Girl

By Gretchen Reynolds
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the September 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Who says you can't buy hope? Willa Shalit is proving that shopping can transform other people's lives.

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