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	Odd Woman Out: Exposure in Essays and Stories 4.35 avg rating — 62 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mastergate by Larry Gelbart, Ed Asner (Actor), Melanie Chartoff (Goodreads Author) (Actor) 3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Melanie Chartoff's Blog

I’ve been married many times and mothered many children. I’ve walked down three aisles and ran headlong down another. I‘ve worn many wedding gowns, and endured labor with a husband Lamaze’ing by my side.

I’ve never been divorced, a mother, nor a bigamist, but this is not a riddle. In real life, I didn’t get married until I was 65.

As a lifelong actress I went through the many phases of courtship, nu Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 02, 2021 19:06 • Tags: 3-stooges, actress, kirk-douglas, lamaze, married, wedding

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The World That We Knew

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mourning its end… …forlorn without it. This book captivated and I became dependent on it at a dark time in American history. Oh how I wish we could alter this era now and into the future. The author is witty and wild, erotic and brilliant. Her dense B ...more
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It took nearly as much courage for me to read this book as it must’ve taken Geraldine Brooks to write it. Now with current fears of fascism reviving in the world, some of the sadism and cruelty of its different phases became too palpable for this read ...more
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Melanie Chartoff made a comment on their status in Dear Life " Always excellent in her depictions of Canadian characters, but this book was not my favorite. The collection of stories was rather distressing with so ...more "
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