Jennifer Nicole Mascia (born November 22, 1977, in

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) is an American writer. She is the author of ''Never Tell Our Business to Strangers'' (2010) and a writer at ''

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. Mascia is a graduate of City University of New York's

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and

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. In February 2010, Mascia published ''Never Tell Our Business to Strangers'', a memoir about her parents that centers around the discovery of her father's murder conviction. The memoir is an expansion of a Modern Love column published in the ''Times'' on April 1, 2007.Jennifer Mascia, "Modern Love: Never Tell Our Business to Strangers," ''The New York Times,'' 01 April 2007
Accessed 05 January 2010

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