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Summer reading ....


 
So I haven't done summer reading God knows how long but I was on twitter one day when these ladies were talking about their book. 

I don't know why I dragged my feet to buy it! I'm about two pages in and hooked. 

As a former customer of their brand,I was super interested.... I mean come on,they did revolutionize lazy fashion for young women. 

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