1. 'Made in the USA' by Billie Letts
2. 'Anthropology of an American Girl' by Hilary Thayer Hamann
3. 'Parisians' by Graham Robb
4. 'Roses' by Leila Meacham
5. 'Uncharted Territory' by Tori Spelling
6. 'Lunch in Paris' by Elizabeth Bard
7. 'Classy' by Derek Blasberg
8. 'What I Did for Love' by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

'To my parents. For Everything.* *Everything except the two week period in 1995 directly following the time you went to Ohio for a wedding and I threw a party in the house, which is the most normal thing a teenage American can do, aside from lie about it, which I also did, and Mom eyed me suspiciously for days, morphing into a one-woman Scotland Yard, marching into my bedroom with a fistful of lint from the dryer to demonstrate that I had mysteriously washed all the towels, and then she waited until we were in a nice restaurant to scream, "Someone vomited on my couch, I know it!" and Dad took away my automotive privileges straight through college so that I spent the subsequent four years likening you both to Stasi foot soldiers, confined as I was to a campus-on-the-hill when I could have been learning to play poker at the casinos down the road and making bad decisions at townie bars. I think we can all agree you overreacted. For everything except that, I am profoundly grateful. I have only the greatest affection for you now. Also: I vomited on the couch.' {HDYGTN}

'Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like a fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you are older.' {IWTTBC}

'The lies we construct to defend ourselves from humiliation are the strongest, resfusing to be torn down.' {HDYGTN}

{Via: Simply Luxurious & Beauty is Diverse}

INGREDIENTS: 1/3 cup olive oil 6-7 large onions 4 large cloves garlic, crushed Sea salt Black pepper Crushed red pepper 3 tablespoons flour 8 cups low sodium beef broth 1/3 cup rose wine 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce 1 cup water 1/2 teaspoon thyme 1/2 teaspoon oregano 1 bay leaf French loaf Gruyere Smoked Mozzarella

{Apron gift of Flirty Apron/OpenSky}

Probably not. I don't think adults eat cupcakes for breakfast.

1. The atomic number of nickel.
2. The postal code for Madrid, Spain.
3. The number of dominoes in a set.
4. It take 28 years for Saturn to revolve around the sun once.
5. 28 is the second perfect number.
6. A 28-sided polygon is called an icosikaioctagon.
7. The 28-letter word anticostituzionalissimamente ('in very anticostitutional way') is the longest word in the Italian language.

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