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How Jen Levinson makes every mother’s life easier

How Jen Levinson makes every mother’s life easier

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/tribe/article/how_jen_levinson_makes_every_mothers_life_easier_20100728/

Within five minutes of meeting Jen Levinson, she was my best friend. If you are one of the 15,000-plus people who receives Jen’s List — a daily e-mail crammed with everything from Jen’s recommendations on handymen and painters to fun activities to do with your kids — you might want to fight me for the BFF title. But who else besides your best friend would be open enough to talk to you about her history of depression, her numerous miscarriages, a cancer scare, her tummy tuck and her relationship with her husband?

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