title: What Would Grace Do?: How to Live Life in Style Like the Princess of Hollywood
author:  Gina McKinnon 
description: Gina McKinnon writes fiction, nonfiction, and humor. She lives in Brighton, England, with her husband and two children.
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  > > In memory of my brother, John Joseph Hogan, who left this world too soon.  
  >  Miss you, Johnny.
  
  
  
  
  
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  If Grace Stanton had known the world as she knew it was going to end that
  uneventful evening in May, she might have been better prepared. She certainly
  would have packed more underwear and a decent bra, not to mention moisturizer
  and her iPhone charger.
  
  But as far as Grace knew, she was just doing her job, writing and
  photographing Gracenotes, a blog designed to make her own lifestyle look so
  glamorous, enticing, and delicious it made perfectly normal women (and gay
  men) want to rip up the script for their own lives and rebuild one exactly
  like hers.
  
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  She peered through the lens finder of her Nikon D7000 and frowned, but only
  for a moment, because, as Ben had told her countless times, a frown was
  forever. She made a conscious effort to smooth the burgeoning wrinkles in her
  forehead, then concentrated anew on her composition.
  
  