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Heather Siegel

Heather Siegel is the author of "Out from the Underworld" (Greenpoint Press, 2015).

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A brief cosmology of cosmetology: A make-up artist’s meditation on the science and art of transformation

Heather Siegel
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The money I poured into a religious sect

Heather Siegel