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@DebHarkness

Professor. Novelist. Feels too much. Never enough children, islands, mourners, gossips & vegetables. Warms the stars. Essentially a spy. She/her.

Los Angeles   + London  
Joined March 2007

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    Here’s the new cover for THE BOOK OF LIFE! Releasing in the US on 4 January 2022. Pre-order it now & gift it for the holidays. Get one for yourself, too. When we have information on foreign editions and translations they will be on my website.

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  2. Op-Ed: Leave abortion law to the states? Just look at the Fugitive Slave Act to see how that will go - Los Angeles Times

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  3. Todays gratitude: 🎬 a lovely montage of behind-the-scenes memories from my personal camera roll of season 1 of 👯‍♀️ the friendships that sustain me on this long and difficult road 🧪 a tentative new date set for my final chemo infusion

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  4. Today's : 🧫 my COVID continues to be mild 🩺 my doctors are working to figure out when it will be safe for me to get my final chemotherapy treatment 📚 a brilliant new book by to help me think about something other than Covid and Cancer

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  6. May 18

    pro tip: if you won't denounce white supremacists for fear of angering your base, congratulations, you belong to the shithole party

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  7. Getting COVID means a delay in all of my life-saving, critical treatments and I cannot get my screenings on schedule. This is life and death twice over for those of us with cancer. We're already fighting for our lives. Can you just wear a mask and help us out??

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  8. I was aware but sharing gif those who don't know. Please follow CDC guidance and MASK UP to protect people who are immunocompromised like me and other cancer patients. I did NOT need Covid days before my last chemo infusion but it got me and I have very few defenses.

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  9. Today's : 🦮 the love & loyalty of dogs, & their sensitivity to know when something is wrong 🧫 continuing to have mild Covid symptoms from Covid thanks to vaccines & timely antivirals 😘 everyone's continued support on this bump in my cancer journey

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  10. My Covid nurse. ♥️

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  11. May 17
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  12. Some fabulous art historical sleuthing and an intriguing potential ID for two portraits based on jewelry analysis. Find it all intriguing--and plausible.

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  13. Today's gratitude: 💊 Paxlovid 🧪 all the scientists who have been busting their butts to develop drugs and vaccines to keep us safer during the pandemic 🩺 my cancer team who are standing by to reschedule my final chemo session once I'm virus free

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  14. May 16

    This is Luna. She's not usually allowed on the couch, but there are bigger problems in the world, so she'll be right here if you need her. 13/10

    a brown and grey shepherd mix lies on a black leather couch. her ears are out to the side slightly but also pointing back like she's awaiting the answer to a question. she has a nice little soft smile going. no teeth, but the sides of her mouth are definitely turned pupwards. she's staring directly at the camera
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  15. Today's gratitude--on the day I tested positive for Covid 🥤cool drinks to soothe a sore throat 🍬 throat lozenges 🛌 the privilege of being able to self isolate in my own house for the past five days, and now another 14 PLEASE be careful. We were but

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  16. Today's gratitude: 🥔 mashed potatoes that feel gentle on the tummy 📞 Sunday catch up phone calls with with friends and family 🌝 tonight's super blood moon

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  17. Today's gratitude: 🛏 a long, lazy morning and breakfast in bed 🐶 the happy splashes that Baxter makes playing in the pool 🪤 spinach-artichoke-Parmesan dip

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  18. May 13

    “I stopped writing [Handmaid’s Tale] several times..I considered it too far-fetched. Silly me. Theocratic dictatorships do not lie only in the distant past: There are a number of them on the planet today. What is to prevent the US from becoming one?”

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  19. Today's gratitude: 💉vaccines, because 🧪 home Covid tests because 😷 everybody who is still wearing a mask to help protect people like me because and

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  20. May 11

    I don’t know how to say it more clearly, but to young people especially: If you don’t vote this November, you might not have a country left in which you can ever truly be free again.

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  21. May 12

    Happy There are not enough words to describe all the incredible things nurses do across so many specialities and disciplines But there is one important word: THANK YOU Also: Pay them properly!

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