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Y'all I don't even know, this is about an 80's lady with fake boobs who dies and gets stuck being a fairy godmother for an 1890's-era girl in Colorado.\\xa0 I swear this is the god honest plot of this book.
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This WOULD be delightful but in fact it's alarmingly full of some insanely intense fat shaming, plus some shockingly evil family emotional abuse, including hella gaslighting.\\xa0 Seriously, this is supposed to be a light and frothy book!\\xa0 And it is!\\xa0 But if any of that sounds like it's going to bother you, the light and frothy tone of it is going to make it a lot worse for you.\\xa0 The fat shaming gets to insane and hysterical levels (I don't mean hysterical like ha-ha.)
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I think Jude Deveraux is accidentally letting her own body issues slip out, because she makes the enormous mistake (heh) of telling us exactly what this woman weighs.\\xa0 Please understand that she's supposed to be so fat that the whole town feels a little sad revulsion when they see her out in public.\\xa0 (Not that any weight would make that okay!\\xa0 Obviously!)\\xa0 But this poor girl is a whopping ONE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO POUNDS.
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