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Jennifer Graham

When adoptions fail

Even those who make a living sharing their lives are silent, devastated

By Jennifer Graham

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  June 18, 2012

Critics of the writer Joyce Maynard say there’s no secret she won’t reveal, that her abortion, her breast implants, her love affair with a certain iconic literary recluse, are all for sale. At $1.50 a word — what the typical women’s magazine pays — it takes a lot of confessing to cover the mortgage.

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