Friend and freelance partner Marta Ibarrondo ponders life's unanswered questions for the Huffington Post...and I'm one of small batch of writers she's chosen to help answer them. So I guess that makes me a self-proclaimed authority on a vast number of subjects from love and lies to Marie Antoinette and the NRA.
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