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It's merchandise for MBB. That's life. The real wowsy is how/why did the ghostwriter make such a hash of it? Did they fall out in the making? (Now that might make a good comic story.)

Youtube clip of girl critiquing the book is worth watching as an exercise in how potentially good stories can fail their audience.
 
So sad. Since I don't watch TV, I don't know who MBB is other than a Netflix star. Is that right? But to hire a ghostwriter and then have the ghostwriter betray her? Embarrass MBB about the inferior quality of the ghostwriter's work? And who connected them?

Sounds like a mean girls drama. Could make a TV series. Think Seven Lives of Evelyn Hugo gone wrong.
 
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