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By Lynn Harris
Published February 15, 2006 6:02PM (EST)
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By Lynn Harris
Award-winning journalist Lynn Harris is author of the comic novel "Death by Chick Lit" and co-creator of BreakupGirl.net. She also writes for the New York Times, Glamour, and many others.
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