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Sara Benincasa
is an award-winning comedian, writer, blogger, and podcast host as well as the writer and star of the one-woman show
Agorafabulous!
She frequently contributes opinion pieces to CNN.com and was a citizen-journalist for the 2008 MTV News Choose or Lose Street Team. She hosts the Web series
Gettin’ Wet with Sara Benincasa
and the popular podcast
Sex and Other Human Activities.
She travels the country to speak about mental illness and women’s issues at universities and conferences. She lives in New York City.

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AGORAFABULOUS!
Copyright © 2012 by Sara Benincasa Donnelly. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

 

FIRST EDITION

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Benincasa, Sara.

   Agorafabulous! : dispatches from my bedroom / Sara Benincasa. — 1st ed.

      p. cm.

   ISBN 978-0-06-202441-1

   1. Benincasa, Sara—Health. 2. Agoraphobia—Patients—United States—Biography. I. Title. II. Title: Dispatches from my bedroom.

   RC552.A44B46 2012

   616.85'225—dc23

2011033172

 

EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2012 ISBN: 9780062099075

 

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1
Unless you count oral sex. Which, being Catholic, I did not.

2
Italian-Americans argue over the origin of the term
agita
(AH-jih-da). The most common explanation is that it comes from the verb
agitare
, “to agitate.” Some folks say it is a Southern Italian mispronunciation of the noun
acido
(AH-chee-do), or acid. It means that you’re really nervous, your stomach hurts, or you’ve got the shits. Mr. D’Angelo assumed my malady was of the more scatological variety.

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