The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

Erma Bombeck
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It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.
Genres: HumorNonfictionComedyMemoirEssaysBiographyAudiobookAdultBiography MemoirBook Club
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