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Michelle Newman

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Michelle Newman

Michelle is a Minneapolis-based writer who shares stories on her blog, You’re My Favorite Today. She is also one of the hosts of the podcast Pop Culture Preservation Society, where she and her friends preserve the pop culture nuggets of their Gen X childhoods.

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