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Abbey Stone
Joined: Apr 30, 2014
Abbey Stone is former a senior editor at MentalFloss.com. She graduated from Barnard College with a degree in English, which she put to good use writing about twerking and tween stars for People, Hollywood.com, and Popstar! Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.
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