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I laughed until I cried -- literally -- at most of Let's Pretend This Never Happened. (The author is also The Bloggess.) I kept interrupting my husband to read him bits, saying "Listen, listen, you won't BELIEVE this," and then dissolving into hysterical giggles. Makes me wish I'd had a father who dropped bobcats on my boyfriends and built a still in the backyard, but the best part is finding out that she and her husband argue over whether Jesus should have been considered a zombie. I went to college in Texas but I never left the big city of San Antonio; however, I suspect there are tiny towns in my own home state that look a lot like Wall, TX. A lot of fun to read, but with some surprisingly poignant bits; the last chapter in particular, where the author and her sister are both visiting with their families, is a nice object lesson in how important family -- no matter how odd -- is, even when you're all grown up.