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Venita V. Johnson

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Born
in New York, The United States
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Genre
Poetry, Women & Gender Studies, Humor

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-I am a life-long Manhattanite.

-Though I am more-so a resident of Central Park. I went to Central Park Camp every single fricken summer from age six to age fourteen and loved every moment of it! If I ever go missing you know where to find me.

-My dream is to own a loft in Soho or Brooklyn Heights, which probably won't suit me well because I have no sense of direction whatsoever. When I bar it up in Soho I use my Google Latitude to get back to the subway.

…seriously though, most of Manhattan streets are grid-like which makes my life bearable.

-I have the luck and coordination of Eugene Proctor in “Pure Luck” (Awesome Movie BTW)

-I have had every single job imaginable and for that I am a wealth of info.

-The best advice I ever got was, “When you ...more

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Musings of a Lovesick Rabbit
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The Only Writing Prompt Book You'll Ever Need by E.T. James
The Only Writing Prompt Book You'll Ever Need: The ultimate collection of prompts to spark your creativity and transform your writing
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Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
Go the Fuck to Sleep
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The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1)
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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Tuesday by David Wiesner
Tuesday
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The Adventures of Curious George by H.A. Rey
The Adventures of Curious George
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Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Make Way for Ducklings
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Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Love You Forever
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Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Flat Stanley (Flat Stanley, #1)
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“His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two.”
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“A moment might be a thousand different things.”
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“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”
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“This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.”
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“But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would change.”
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