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Half-Assed
A Weight-Loss Memoir
 
Copyright © 2008 Jennette Fulda
 
Published by
Seal Press
A Member of the Perseus Books Group
1700 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the publisher, except by reviewers who may quote brief excerpts in connection with a review.
 
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 
Fulda, Jennette.
Half-assed : a weight-loss memoir / by Jennette Fulda.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN : 978-1-580-05278-8
1. Fulda, Jennette. 2. Overweight women—United States—Biography. I.
Title.
 
RC628.F85 2008
362.196’3980092—dc22
[B]
2007049499
 
The events described in this book are true as I remember them, which is as close to the truth as I can ever get. Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect innocent dental hygienists, English teachers, and others.
 
 

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