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"LOL. Every time God Father Carlo does something&amp;amp;#133;interesting, like, I don&amp;amp;#8217;t know, encourage JD to burp by burping, himself, he looks at me and says: &amp;amp;#8220;Wait, don&amp;amp;#8217;t put that in your memoir.&amp;amp;#8221; There are thirteen chapters printed out on my desk and whenever he&amp;amp;#8217;s over he reaches for them and I slap his hand away, like a feisty chef preparing the most excellent meal&amp;amp;#8212;that isn&amp;amp;#8217;t cooked yet. Carlo&amp;amp;#8217;s constantly asking me how much I&amp;amp;#8217;m &amp;amp;#8220;exposing.&amp;amp;#8221; I mean, I&amp;amp;#8217;m writing a memoir and yeah it&amp;amp;#8217;s based on the contents of this blog, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s a book&amp;amp;#8212;not a blog. Everything is brand new. There is absolutely no copy/pasting going on. I&amp;amp;#8217;ve written about a lot of things I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been through over the years in my book and it&amp;amp;#8217;s all fair game&amp;amp;#8212;it happened to me. I brought this up with Erin over lunch the other day. Have you guys read her fabulous memoir, My So-Called Normal Life, yet? I asked her how she decided what to put in and leave out and her response was simple: &amp;amp;#8220;If it enhances the plot, it&amp;amp;#8217;s in.&amp;amp;#8221; When I got home I wrote that down on a Post It and slapped it to the wall my desk is pushed up against. The art of memoir is a very therapeutic and scary thing. When I wrote the scene where my grandmother died in front of my face, all alone, in her house, I found myself reaching for a breath and pushing JD&amp;amp;#8217;s stroller a little slower that evening on our walk. I couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t sleep that night, either. And with that said, the sweat and tears that go into sewing pages of my life together, you wonder, is it relevant? Will people care? Will anyone buy this book? I asked Erin all of these questions at lunch, too, and she told me to R-E-L-A-X. If you were writing a memoir what would definitely be in your book. Think about it&amp;amp;#133; PS: Something, uh, Rev. Run said that hit home for me, especially now: Do you live your life like an open book? You should if you could set the right example, because the best gift you can give to others is sharing your life lessons, so take a page from your book of life and read it from the highest mountain for all to hear. That&amp;amp;#8217;s right people&amp;amp;#8212;I cried watching Run&amp;amp;#8217;s House. And side note: I really like that show. The family is so tight. Sometimes I want to live with them. They live about twenty minutes from me. Do I sound like a stalker? The nurse who took care of me when I had JD took care of Justine when she, sadly, lost her baby girl. The nurse told me that when I was panicking over the spinal I was about to get. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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