For one mind-blowing (and disorienting) moment, I thought you were 
talking about me!

Oh.  It's NOT all about me after all...

--- In [email protected], "Ellen" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> or weird coincidence?  I'm taking a course on tape about the city 
and
> urban life as portrayed in the arts and literature, and the 
instructor
> is using the book Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe as a good example of
> literature about urban life.  So I looked it up on Amazon and I
> discovered that there is an edition of the book with an afterward by
> Gina!  Yes, our Gina!
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Moll-Flanders-Signet-Classics-
Paperback/dp/0451529855/sr=11-1/qid=1166416873/ref=sr_11_1/102-
1938298-7281767
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/ya3xsq
> 
> The weirdest part was that it said that the authors were Daniel 
Defoe
> and Regina Barreca (afterward).  At first glance it looks like Mr.
> Defoe collaborated with Gina and asked her to write the afterward,
> which caused me to do a doubletake.  It's only $6--I might have to 
get
> it just to see what Gina has to say.  I thought it was pretty 
funny. 
> Turns out she wrote the afterward for several female-oriented 
literary
> classics including Portrait of a Lady.  The other odd thing was I 
did
> a search on "Regina Barreca" and it listed lots of her books but not
> I'm with Stupid, but when I looked up "I'm with Stupid" she is 
listed
> as "Gina Barreca".  So all the books where she put her name like 
that
> won't come up in a "Regina Barreca" search. She probably did it like
> that for I'm with Stupid because of the "Gene and Gina" thing. 
> Anyway, I just thought the whole thing was interesting, you may not.
>


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