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If jenna is a coauthor of the book, i would mention her at the beginning too. Gaby rodriguez made national headlines in 2011 when, as a seventeenyearold high school senior from toppenish, washington, she revealed she had faked a pregnancy for a class project. Read download pregnancy to podium pdf pdf download. What she learned changed her life, and made international headlines in the process. In the pregnancy project, gaby details how she was able to fake her own pregnancy hiding the truth from even her siblings and boyfriends parentsand reveals all that she learned from the experience.
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