Body of Work: Belle de Jour

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The Unbearable Weight of Life After Fame

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Heather Armstrong and a mirror

This morning I saw it was announced that Heather Armstrong, an early blogger formerly known as Dooce, had died. She wasn't a friend. But we came out of that same milieu of early blogging, where someone telling unadorned stories of their lives could find themselves catapulted into a new and different kind of fame beyond just…

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