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Rachel Levy Lesser, who's the author of Life's Accessories,

A Memoir and Fashion Guide, a former marketing and PR exec for magazines and nonprofits.

Rachel has written four nonfiction books.

Her essays have been published on glamour, parenting.com, quveller, modern law, scary mommy,

and other sites.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she received her MBA

from the raw school of business at the University of Michigan. She currently lives in Pennsylvania

with her husband and two children. So welcome, Rachel. Thanks for coming on Mom's Don't

have time to read books. Thanks for having me, Zivvy. So can you please tell listeners what

Life Successories is about and what inspired you to write it? Sure. Life successories is a coming-of-age

memoir told in 14 essays, which come together as 14 chapters to tell a complete story. But each

essay is represented by an item of either clothing or jewelry or an accessory or something in my

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