The Disappearing Act: Journey of How a Poetess Grew up Within a Matter of Five Years.

Copyright © 2021 by April Frances Federico.

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Rev. date: 03/05/2021

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CONTENTS

Prologue

A Letter to Henry David Thoreau: The Introduction

Anniversaries

April

Barbarians

Science Lesson

Silhouette

The Gettysburg Address

The Process of Loving Another Human

The Carrie Bradshaw Theory

Thick Thighs and Trying Times

The Lioness

Manly Stew for the Sexist Soul

Ten Commandments of Where You Live

Audrey Hepburn’s Ambassadorship with UNICEF

Princess Diana’s interview with BBC’s Martin Bashir

Sobriety

Being bullied is like being on a Witch Trial

Stop Telling Girls How to Dress

The Coloring Book of Mental Illness

Built to Collapse

The Taboo of Wearing a Black Thong

There’s No The End For This Princess

Rendition of the red-hot satin, seventh grade semiformal dress on Christmas day

Closing Story: A Good Story is Hard to Tell (with apologies to Flannery O’Connor)

Reader: If you told me where I would be in five years,

I would’ve thought you were absolutely nutty.

To Victor and Patty, my favorites.

Many a time she thought she could just sit down and write a book. Many a time she thought it’d be easy. She thought she could handle the Carrie Bradshaw (the AnnaSophia Robb portrayal) life, until she realized it wasn’t going to lead her to New York, at least not right away. Until one night, she