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Motherhood, fiction, and poetry, by former journalist-turned-full-time boy mom Katherine Mansfield

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    Motherhood, fiction, poetry | Mansfield is a former journalist, sometime columnist, always drinking coffee-ist living the SAHM dream just outside Pittsburgh, Pa. | Debut novel out NOW

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