eBooks - Romance - Romance - Rebecca Agiewich - BreakupBabe
BreakupBabe eBooks
by Rebecca Agiewich
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Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
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All Palm & Pocket PC handheld devices plus all Windows and Macintosh computers. Features
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BreakupBabe Summary
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Chapter One Sunday, August 11, 2002 12:58 PM Breakup Babe Hello, my name is Breakup Babe. Tomorrow I get to go to my new job at a large Seattle software company, where my office is right down the hall from the man I thought I was going to marry, who just lied to me, cheated on me, and then dumped me on my f*cking a*s. That was the paragraph that started it all. I had no idea that starting a free weblog called Breakup Babe would change my life. It was just something to do to keep me sane. But what I've learned in the last year is that things never turn out how you envision them. When your life cracks open, like mine did, you're messed up at first, and because of that, you do stupid things, but you also grow and change in ways you couldn't before. Then, suddenly, you're a lot closer to "happiness" than you were--even though "happiness" looks different now from what it did when some creepy-crawly bastard broke your heart. But let's start at the beginning, shall we? When The Great Unpleasantness (as we shall henceforth call it) struck in June 2002, one of the first thoughts that hit me was I want to start a blog about this. A few friends of mine were bloggers, and articles predicting a "blogging revolution" had just begun to appear in places such as Newsweek. But I didn't want to revolutionize anything. I just wanted a place to vent. Why I chose the Internet rather than writing in the diaries I'd been sighing and moaning in since age thirteen, I'm not sure. I'd been writing in semi-obscurity for years, being paid to write bland freelance pieces and slaving away on a book that sucked, though I could not yet pinpoint the reason for its suckiness. So I think I was just ready to be heard in my own voice--to write something that was not a fluffy newspaper travel article or a trying-too-hard book that I was afraid to s... |
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