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Finding God in Madonna

September 29, 2010
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What sort of spiritual seeker uses Madonna as a role model? Ten years ago, Wendy Shanker wrote her first book, the wildly popular memoir The Fat Girl’s Guide to Life, and became a successful Hollywood writer. Then she acquired a rare autoimmune disease. “It turns out,” writes Shanker, “my body had a sequel…

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