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txwhitedove

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6. True pic. That was my dresser til I bought a bookcase on FB Marketplace. Now need another.
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:48 AM
Jun 22

Finished reading When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal. Lovely book of family that I really. cared about. No murder mystery, but a who done it and why of family drama, and love. Great description of New Zealand.

Now reading a non-fiction, Wise Gals: the spies who built the CIA and changed the future of espionage by Nathalia Holt. "In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the “wise gals” by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and groundbreaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering—and insisting (in their own unique ways) that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved."

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