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Book Review of The Corset Diaries

The Corset Diaries
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No woman in her right mind would consent to wearing a corset for a month. Especially a skinny challenged woman like myself. But dreams of being debt free danced in my head when i received the offer to appear on a reality TV show.
A month in the life of a Victorian Duke is about real peiple--like me--prentending to live on a English estate, circa 1879. Sounds fun, no? Well, it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. We're talking no televisions, no cell phones, no PMS medication. And did I mention the corsets? No breathing for a full month. Lluckily, when I met the reall-life duke who was to be my pretend husband. He took my breath away......