Blackout_ Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
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This memoir reflects <strong>the</strong> author’s life faithfully rendered <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> best of her ability. Some names and identifying details have been changed<br />
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Copyright © 2015 by Sarah Hepola<br />
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form.<br />
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace.<br />
Copyright © 2009 by <strong>the</strong> David Foster Wallace Literary Trust. Used by permission of Little, Brown and Company.<br />
ISBN 978-1-455-55457-7<br />
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