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Diane L. Major
Hope is what ambition is made of.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
To the Nines II
Diane Vallere has a GREAT post at BookEnds' blog, on dressing for a conference - and The Pitch
...
I had some thoughts on this
once, too, in my misspent youth.
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