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I struggle with the fact that men's popular fiction is talked about differently. Books like mine don't get as many reviews and probably won't win any prizes, but they entertain the pants off of hundreds of thousands of women.

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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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