I Was Lucky to Be Alive. But I Missed Being Pretty.
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Summary
A pump-up girl faces her own mortality. When I was 22, I moved to New York City to be a bar-mitzvah motivator. I’d dreamed about this job ever since I’d discovered that it was a job—drunk on gummy candy at my cousin’s bar mitzvah in New Jersey, crushing on a man in leather pants pumping his fist to …
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