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About Caroline Calvert

Evanston-based writer, reader, mother, and lawyer, by way of Brooklyn, Cambridge, LA, and Oakland. My two favorite things to write about are books and motherhood. Proud Williams College alum and unenthusiastic Harvard Law grad.

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