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Margaret B. Jones is a Valley Girl

She's Margaret Seltzer, she went to preppy Campbell Hall, and she never ran drugs for the Bloods in South L.A., she confessed to the New York Times. The publisher of her memoir, "Love and Consequences," cancelled the book tour due to begin Monday and claims to be ticked off. Seltzer's sister turned her in. Mark Lacter examines the NYT piece, and here's this morning's LAT follow.


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