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What if you closed your eyes, blew out the candles, and your wish came true? Ellie Jerome is a young-at-heart seventy-five-year-old who feels she has more in common with her twenty-nine-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, than her fifty-five-year-old daughter, Barbara. Ellie’s done everything she... read more
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- Ellie Jerome: Add a description of this character.
- Lucy: Ellie's granddaughter
- Barbara Sustamorn: Ellie's daughter, Lucy's mother
- Frida: Ellie's best friend
- Howard Jerome: Ellie's late husband
- Zachary
- Gram
- Ken
- Johnny
- Rodney
- Hershel Neal
- Larry Sustamorn
- Mrs. Freedberg
- Grandma
- Sol
- Ellie Michele
- Bea
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“The first thing I noticed when Barbara called and woke me up this morning was my boobs. I always sleep on my stomach, so I have become used to waking up with my boobs hanging around my underarms. The first thing I do every morning is pull those mounds of flesh into a more comfortable position.”
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“My bottom belly was gone! I'd contemplated having that thing sucked out many times, but if you've ever had a face-lift and a brow lift and felt the pain of that, it makes you pause before doing anything else too invasive.”
Ellie
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I'm jealous of my granddaughter.
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- Adena Halpern (Author)
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Page Count: 288
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Page Count: 288
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- Dewey: 813
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