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Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage. But as the child of immigrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to meet his fellow Gaysians.
Law takes his investigative duties seriously, going nude where required in Balinese sex resorts, sitting backstage for hours with Thai ladyboy beauty contestants, and trying Indian yoga classes designed to cure his homosexuality. The characters he meets - from Tokyo's celebrity drag queens to HIV-positive Burmese sex workers and Malaysian ex-gay Christian fundamentalists to Chinese gays and lesbians who marry each other to please their parents - all teach him something new about being queer in Asia.
At once entertaining and moving, Gaysia is a wild ride and a fascinating quest by a leading Australian writer.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Romance, dating, sex and - Muslim women? In this groundbreaking collection, 25 American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be - from singles' events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist. These compelling stories of love and romance create an irresistible balance of heart-warming and tantalizing, always revealing and deeply relatable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sex, Love, & Feminism, in the Muslim Women's World
- De Susie en 03-06-13
De: Ayesha Mattu, y otros
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Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
- Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
- De: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
- Narrado por: Mark Bachman
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into “straight-acting dudes hangin’ out”, what are the possibilities for a defiant faggotry that challenges the assimilationist norms of a corporate-cozy lifestyle?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forget the Status Quo South Beach B.S.
- De Susie en 03-14-13
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What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
- A Memoir
- De: Kristin Newman
- Narrado por: Kristin Newman
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,007
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,007
Kristin Newman spent her 20s and 30s dealing with the stresses of her high-pressure job as a television comedy writer, and the anxieties of watching most of her friends get married and start families while she wrestled with her own fear of both. Not ready to settle down and yet loathe to become a sad-sack single girl, Kristin instead started traveling the world, often alone, for a few months each year, falling madly in love with attractive locals who provided moments of the love she wanted without the cost of the freedom she needed.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Struggled to Finish
- De YITBOS en 11-21-15
De: Kristin Newman
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City of Lies
- Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran
- De: Ramita Navai
- Narrado por: Sylvia Lisle
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
In today's Tehran, intrigues abound and survival depends on an intricate network of falsehoods: mullahs visit prostitutes, local mosques train barely pubescent boys in crowd-control tactics, and cosmetic surgeons promise to restore girls' virginity. Navai paints an intimate portrait of those discreet recesses in a city where the difference between modesty and profanity, loyalty and betrayal, honor and disgrace is often no more than the believability of a lie.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Impossible to Put Down
- De Leonard en 10-19-14
De: Ramita Navai
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Trans Figured
- My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man
- De: Brian Belovitch
- Narrado por: Joel Froomkin
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Brian Belovitch has the rare distinction of coming out three times: first as a queer teenager; second as a glamorous transgender woman named Tish, and later, Natalia Gervais; and finally as an HIV-positive gay man surviving the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. From growing up in a barely-working-class first-generation immigrant family in Fall River, Massachusetts, to spinning across the disco dance floor of Studio 54 in New York City, Brian escaped many near-death experiences. Trans Figured chronicles a life lived on the edge with an unforgettable cast of characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How utterly exhausting
- De Leah en 11-19-18
De: Brian Belovitch
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30 Before 30
- How I Made a Mess of 20s, and You Can Too
- De: Marina Shifrin
- Narrado por: Marina Shifrin
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Something was nagging Marina Shifrin. As a freshly minted adult with student loan payments and a “real” job she hated that paid her enough to get by if she also worked two other jobs, something needed to change. Marina and her friend each made lists of 30 things they’d do before the age of 30. The first thing on Marina’s list was, “Quit My Shitty Job”. So she did, and just like that the List powered her through her twenties. Told with humor and heart, 30 Before 30 will entertain, motivate, and challenge listeners to get out of their comfort zones and live their best lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring read
- De Chris Gledhill en 12-18-18
De: Marina Shifrin
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Dirty Thirty
- De: Asa Akira
- Narrado por: Veronica Worthington
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 147
As she contemplates turning 30 years old while still being in the adult film trade, Asa Akira, author of the best-seller Insatiable, delves into her past, present, and future, exploring the events that brought her to where she is now and the surprising and insightful plans she has for her future. Internationally known as a porn star, Akira's perceptive, funny, and straightforward writings on love, sex, death, marriage, and celebrity come together in a surprising book of essays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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this was fun I'm going to buy her other book 2
- De Sir Lawrence en 01-09-19
De: Asa Akira
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Good Muslim Boy
- De: Osamah Sami
- Narrado por: Osamah Sami, David Tredinnick
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Meet Osamah Sami: a schemer, a dreamer and a madcap antihero of spectacular proportions whose terrible life choices keep leading to cataclysmic consequences...despite his best laid plans to be a good Muslim boy. By the age of 13, Osamah had survived the Iran-Iraq war, peddled fireworks and chewing gum on the Iranian black market, proposed 'temporary marriage' not once but three times, and received countless floggings from the Piety Police....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Funny, heartwarming and one of the best
- De Sylvia Green en 07-26-17
De: Osamah Sami
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Transmission
- De: Hari Kunzru
- Narrado por: Hari Kunzru
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly Enjoyable
- De Don en 07-11-04
De: Hari Kunzru
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Bangkok 8
- De: John Burdett
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 290
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the only two cops in the city not on the take, but within moments one is murdered and his partner, Sonchai Jitpleecheep - a devout Buddhist and the son of a Thai bar girl and a long-gone Vietnam War G.I. - is hell-bent on wreaking revenge. On a vigilante mission to capture his partner’s murderer, Sonchai is begrudgingly paired with a beautiful FBI agent named Jones....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very dissapointing
- De Dennis en 05-29-13
De: John Burdett
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You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams
- My Life in Stories and Pictures
- De: Alan Cumming
- Narrado por: Alan Cumming
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 831
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 754
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 746
Described by the New York Times as “a bawdy countercultural sprite” and named one of the most fun people in show business by Time magazine, Alan Cumming is a genuine quadruple threat - an internationally acclaimed, award-winning star of stage, television, and film, as well as a New York Times best-selling author whose real-life vivacity, wit, and charm shine through every minute of his third book, You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We would be friends
- De Peg en 11-28-16
De: Alan Cumming
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Challenge Accepted!
- 253 Steps to Becoming an Anti-It Girl
- De: Celeste Barber
- Narrado por: Celeste Barber
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,037
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 922
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 912
Part memoir, part comedy routine, part advice manual, Challenge Accepted! is Celeste at her best, revealing her secrets to love, friendship, family, and marriage (oh hai, #hothusband), and how to deal with life’s many challenges - why she checks the bath for sharks, how Nutella quite literally shaped who she is as a woman, and why being famous on Instagram is like being rich in Monopoly. It’s real, like totally, really real.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Prepare to crack up in the grocery store
- De Chicago_Mama en 05-30-19
De: Celeste Barber
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The Unspeakable
- And Other Subjects of Discussion
- De: Meghan Daum
- Narrado por: Meghan Daum
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide", Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Complaining about her dead mom.
- De Erik Hermansen en 11-23-14
De: Meghan Daum
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Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin
- A Memoir
- De: Nicole Hardy
- Narrado por: Nicole Hardy
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
When Nicole Hardy’s eye-opening "Modern Love" column appeared in the New York Times, the response from readers was overwhelming. Hardy’s essay, which exposed the conflict between being true to herself as a woman and remaining true to her Mormon faith, struck a chord with women coast-to-coast. Now in her funny, intimate, and thoughtful memoir, Nicole Hardy explores how she came, at the age of 35, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Book Spoke to Me
- De Allison en 04-08-14
De: Nicole Hardy
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Fat Girl Walking
- Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It
- De: Brittany Gibbons
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 689
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 634
Fat Girl Walking is a collection of stories from my life, my thoughts about the issues that I have faced as a woman, wife, mom, daughter, daughter-in-law, and Internet personality in regards to my weight. I have tried to be as honest as I possibly could - apologies in advance to my husband and parents, but hopefully any discomfort you feel is quickly replaced by laughter.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One Woman's Body; One Woman's Story
- De Meghan Matt en 06-03-15
De: Brittany Gibbons
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Miss Fortune
- Fresh Perspectives on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not Okay
- De: Lauren Weedman
- Narrado por: Lauren Weedman
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Lauren Weedman is not okay. She's living what should be the good life in sunny Los Angeles. After a gig as a correspondent with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, she scored parts in blockbuster movies, which led to memorable recurring roles on HBO's Hung and Looking. She had a loving husband and an adorable baby boy. In these comedic essays, she turns a piercingly observant, darkly funny lens on the ways her life is actually not okay.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good
- De Ajules29 en 04-02-16
De: Lauren Weedman
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Daring
- My Passages - A Memoir
- De: Gail Sheehy
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared - to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt's president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed unexpectedly
- De Corinne O'Rourke en 09-06-23
De: Gail Sheehy
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American on Purpose
- The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
- De: Craig Ferguson
- Narrado por: Craig Ferguson
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,276
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,515
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,507
In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Glasgow, Scotland, to the comedic promised land of Hollywood. Along the way, he stumbles through several attempts to make his mark - as a punk rock musician, a construction worker, a bouncer, and, tragically, a modern dancer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unabashedly Honest
- De Diane en 12-09-09
De: Craig Ferguson