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I (Donna) saw Whitney Houston when her first album was just out. I don't think I had even bought it yet. She was opening for Jeffrey Osborne. That's who my friend and I had really gone to see. The concert was at Westbury Music Fair, a small theater in the round in Long Island, NY. I can still feel the way her voice washed over me and took my breath away from the first notes, the tingle of her...
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Better Than I Know Myself: A Novel
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2004
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Far From The Tree
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What Doesn't Kill You
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2009
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Uptown: A Novel
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Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made
by Donna Grant, Virginia DeBerry Donna Grant (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 699 ratings
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1996
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Gotta Keep on Tryin'
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2008
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Exposures
by Donna Grant, Virginia DeBerry Donna Grant (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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2005
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" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? VD: Fortunate, Happy, Unconventional, Uncommon, Surprising, Complex, Evolving, Full SS: What is your motto or maxim? VD: Why not? What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describ..." ...More
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? VD: Fortunate, Happy, Unconventional, Uncommon, Surprising, Complex, Evolving, Full SS: What is your motto or maxim? VD: Why not? What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describ..." ...More
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A Novel, by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant
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location: Borders Park Ave., 461 Park Ave., New York, NY, The United States description: Virginia DeBerry was a successful plus-size model, former Vice President of BB/LW modeling agency and served as editor-in-chief of Maxima magazine before becoming a novelist. DeBerry is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo. She currently resides in central New Jersey. Donna Grant spent more than a decade as a model for catalogs and advertisements. Grant has been featured on the pages of Essence, McCalls, Family Circle, and Woman's Day, as well as appeared on Good Morning Amer...more |
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“One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.”
― Virginia DeBerry Donna Grant, What Doesn't Kill You
― Virginia DeBerry Donna Grant, What Doesn't Kill You
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Hey Ladies, thanks for finding me here! I haven't posted, really, I was just following some chats about my books and then...forgot to come back! This is such a great site!
