Now It Can Be Told: Shopping for "Fifty Shades of Grey"
The great lengths my friend went to to conceal her purchase
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Lynn Rosen
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Then we go and get in line and there are 10 people in front of us and the boys are talking and asking “What’d you get Mom?” I distracted them with the top book, then finally it’s my turn and I walk up to the cashier, set down my pile in front of her, carefully slide "Fifty Shades" out of the center, point to the other pile and say “These books I don’t want.” The cashier just gives me an “Oh goodness” kind of look, like “Oh, you’re one of those.”
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