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Christie Tate shares her childhood baby doll, Blue Baby with Rachel on this episode of Life's Accessories. Blue Baby is well loved and that is evident in her tattered appearance. Christie and Rachel discuss why we love things and people so hard even after we believe them to be ruined. Christie tells the stories that inspired her to write GROUP and B.F.F. revealing how and why she can be so open and vulnerable in her writing.


Christie Tate is a Chicago-based writer and essayist. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Pithead Chapel, McSweeney’s, Motherwell, Entropy Magazine, A Perfect Wedding, Together.com, Brain, Child and others. Her debut memoir, Group, published in October 2020 was a Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller.


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