The pants that I have probably haven't been washed in two years.

I'm supposed to look like a starving confederates at the end of the war and I'm supposed to look ragged.

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Trisha Bobita.

And from W. Be Easy in Chicago.

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Coming up, an author who loves Lady Nerds of History as much as we do.

Maybe even more than we do, Tricia.

I really like to write about women whose lives I wish I lived.

And I'm incredibly jealous of all of them.

And our pal Logan Jaffe has been hanging out with Civil War nerds.

All that plus your nerd confessions right here on Nerdette.

She got to be what she wants to be.

Oh, she never really tries She's a liar

She's a liar

But I'm a try her tonight

And her feet's no right Karen Abbott's most recent book is Liar Temptress Soldier Spy.

I really like to write about women whose lives I wish I lived, and I'm incredibly jealous of all of them.

I wish I could step back into their shoes at least for a few minutes and just experience the things they did and have the balls they did.

You think of the word maverick and it's such a male word typically.

It just conjures male heroes and important male historical figures.

But I like to apply that to women.

When it comes to liar, temptress, soldier, spy, How would you explain it if you had 140 characters or less?

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