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I didn't write that book

There are many, many books I didn't write. I didn't write Fun with Dick and Jane or Moby Dick. I didn't write Atlas Shrugged or Middlemarch. You know what else I didn't write? I didn't write a book called My Summer of Southern Comfort. But the MIT Libraries says I did. Of course they also say my first name is Stephani, which takes me back to filling out standardized tests in grade school when they never allotted me enough letters for my first name but more than enough for my last.

Anyway, I think we can all agree that there is an important difference between comfort and discomfort. And Southern Comfort? Um, yeah, that's an entirely different beast. My Summer of Southern Comfort sounds like an alcoholic's memoir. Possibly a fine book, but not MY book.

Also: I didn't write Dialysis: An Unanticipated Journey, though if you type my name into some online bookstores, it's the first book to show up because two of the books' authors have one part each of my name.

I'm glad we've got this straightened out.

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