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"  Introducing the 27 emotionally invested and powerfully introspective essays in The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth about Women,Money, and Relationships (William Morrow), editor Hilary Black writes that she was &amp;quot;surprised by the visceral response to the subject at hand.&amp;quot; Money matters, indeed, but how women choose to internalize that truth\u2014via acceptance, exultance, defiance, indifference\u2014is rarely clear and obvious. All the bases are covered here, from the hard lessons women learn (and impart) to the inextricability of romance and cold hard cash. ELLE&amp;#039;s own Laurie Abraham freely describes the relief that comes with being ignorant of her household&amp;#039;s finances; Kathryn Harrison admits she spoils her daughter because of her own mother&amp;#039;s withholding; Leslie Bennetts wrestles with the values her kids have absorbed among Manhattan&amp;#039;s private-school elite; and another ELLE contributor, Dani Shapiro, contends with the legacy of a mother who wielded money like a weapon. Sheri Holman&amp;#039;s account of her early twenties in New York City, during which she struggled to save but also fell in love with a manic-depressive crack addict, achieves a poetic intensity. Likewise the memory Ann Hood shares of a boyfriend who split expenses down to the cent. As she lay in bed with the flu, he arrived at their apartment with a bottle of Robitussin: &amp;quot;I remember looking at him through my feverish eyes, his hand outstretched, the receipt laid out on the pillow beside me, and knowing that it was over.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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