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Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson

Be Frank With Me

by Julia Claiborne Johnson
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  • Feb 2, 2016, 304 pages
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  • Sep 2016, 256 pages
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Which is how I'd landed on M. M. Banning's welcome mat being chewed out by one of the premiere voices of this or any generation. I pulled myself together before she called the cops and said, "I am the girl Mr. Vargas sent."

She put the phone in her cardigan pocket. "Well then," she said. "If you're done staring at me, I guess you can come inside."

Excerpted from Be Frank With Me by Spencer Johnson. Copyright © 2016 by Spencer Johnson. Excerpted by permission of William Morrow. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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