Annabelle Tometich @ATometich Twitter profile

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Annabelle Tometich

5 months

My heart stopped. To have someone (for the @nytimes !!) read this book with such care and understand it for all it is, it’s more than I process. Thank you @michelleorange . I’ll be over here bawling again it’s fine 🍊 🥭

Mango. Gun. Handcuffs. Could a Story Get Any More Floridian? (Gift Article)

Annabelle Tometich’s “The Mango Tree” provides an unvarnished look at her mother, who shot a BB gun at the truck of a purported fruit thief.

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Annabelle Tometich

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3 years

@livesinpages Ooof light/right/night/fight day still haunts me

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2 years

Spam carbonara, not mad at it at all

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4 months

Last night, one (1) person showed up to my book tour event. So we walked across the street and drank wine, and maybe all book tour events should be that way

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2 years

@Kristen_Arnett Beware of shark

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1 year

Pancit two ways

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2 years

@legroff A horror story in a tweet 💀

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2 years

This Filipina-Slav Floridian has a book deal. I’m honored to be working with @vivianwmlee (who called it “heartfelt, tender, and delicious 🥹) and eternally grateful for @LightnerKayla . Here goes nothing (and also EVERYTHING) 🥭 🌳 ✨

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2 years

Post office clerk to the Vietnamese man in front of me: “Let me guess, you’re mailing mangoes. Everybody today is mailing mangoes.” Me holding a box of mangoes: “yeah that checks out” The asian woman behind me: “I thought he was racially profiling us, but this is also mangoes”

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1 year

Two sticks of butter and four bay leaves, how ALL cookies should start 🍪 #mayumu

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2 years

"These wins have felt like a balm, a plate of cut fruit delivered from the universe following months and years of Asian hate.They don't solve that.But they matter."Honored to write about @oliviarodrigo @anthonyocampo @kevinnadal &Filipinoness in @USATODAY

What do Olivia Rodrigo, Saweetie, H.E.R., Bruno Mars, Elle King and Remy Martin have in common? Me.

Filipino Americans are not easily categorized. But we still need to see our dreams being lived by people who share our heritage.

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Annabelle Tometich

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2 years

After 17 years and 11 months, today is my last day with @TheNewsPress . I took a buyout in Oct. I have no plans other than to take a nap and work on more books. I can't thank my colleagues and editors enough. You saw a failed med-school applicant and middling line cook and gave...

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Annabelle Tometich

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3 years

Wherein the brilliant @bettinamak follows adobo around the world through centuries of Spanish colonization

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2 years

@MindaHoney @danhett My friend PayPal’d me for our Cuba trip in 2019 and PayPal ALSO FROZE that transaction. It was a mess and took FOREVER to recover the money. PayPal does not like Cuba stuff

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Annabelle Tometich

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1 year

Remember that book I wrote? It has a cover. And a pub date (4/2/24!!). And you can pre-order it now 🥹 🥭 🌳 ✨

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2 years

Woke up to some good news ✨

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3 years

@laurenthehough Is she letting … Jesus take the wheel? 😑

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4 months

I’m flying to @latimesfob , having an aiport Bloody Mary at DFW and the woman next to me pulls out THIS. To which I say “Um, is that a mango?” To which she says “Yes, of course.” To which I say, “Wow do I have a story for you.” And long one short, I just sold a book @littlebrown

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

2 years

From Brian Nagle of The Cottage #FortMyersBeach “I went down the day after the hurricane and this is my 700 seat restaurant. I found this flag in the rubble and just didn't feel right stepping over it.Figured I could give my people a little hope bc I have nothing else to offer.”

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3 years

Server: You sure you want a WHOLE pound of shrimp? Me (nodding, refusing to blink, making constant eye contact): Yes I’m sure.

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3 months

The mangoes made the pages of the NYT book review 🥹

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3 years

I spent two years chasing a 120# snatch. Half a decade later, I hit it on a random Thursday. This is the face of elation 🥳

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2 years

First mangoes of the season are ripe ✨

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

5 months

I’ll be crying all day long. Thank you to the absolute best agent and agency a nobody author could ask for. @LightnerKayla and @pande_literary are my heroes 🥭

Pande Literary

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5 months

"Mom shot at some guy. He was messing with her mangoes." And so it begins. Happy pub day to Annabelle Tometich's ( @ATometich ) THE MANGO TREE! 🥭 @LightnerKayla @littlebrown @vivianwmlee 🥭

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1 year

Did my author headshots with a MANGO TREE 🥹 (and the amazing @Kinfay ) Shown here from laughiest to face-punchiest

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

2 years

Moving to Flavortown ✌🏽🍌

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2 years

My goodbye column is out today in @TheNewsPress . It’s about sandwiches and shamelessness, both of which I’m learning to embrace. It has been an honor ❤️

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1 year

We have 🥭 🥭 🥭!!! Advanced reader copies of THE MANGO TREE are now available on Netgalley. And they are so pretty

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Annabelle Tometich

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1 year

The beauty of no longer working as a restaurant critic: I can go back to the same place over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over

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Annabelle Tometich

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2 years

her a chance. I wouldn't be a writer, a critic or a soon-to-be author were it not for this opportunity. Thank you. Keep your heads up. Keep fighting for local journalism. And if you ever need a drink or a snack, my door is open. Unless I'm napping.

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2 years

I’ve been to more restaurants in the week since I left my food-critic job than I’d been to in the last three months. Irony.

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@ATometich

2 years

🧵 I combed through NOAA imagery, social media posts and 17 years of hospitality contacts to try and quantify the state of restaurants on #FortMyersBeach #PineIsland #Matlacha #Sanibel and #Captiva following #hurricaineIan . It’s not pretty. But there’s hope.

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

4 months

Some people hire photographers for their events, @thestackspod_ brought in a magician. Thank you @Aaronjayyoung 🪄 The #LATimesFestivalOfBooks was equally magical. What a weekend 🥭

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

2 years

Have circled back around to the Key lime pie portion of hurricane coping

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

6 years

Wherein I speak for us quiet CrossFitters out there -- like the Lorax, with thicker thighs. Happy #CrossFitOpen Thursday! @CrossFit @CrossFitGames @IcelandAnnie @MathewFras @TiaToomey

CrossFit Open 2019: 19.1, WODs, announcements — We're all mad here

Workout 19.1, the first WOD of the 2019 CrossFit Open, will be announced tonight. The CrossFit crazies are ready (even the quiet ones), but are you?

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

2 years

I have a sliver of cell signal. We are safe. Sending love to all of #SWFL

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@ATometich

2 months

The Mango Tree just keeps growing 🥹

Vivian Lee

@vivianwmlee

2 months

THE MANGO TREE by @ATometich is one of @amazonbooks Best Memoirs of 2024 so far!

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2 years

Had a bit too much wine Friday night and bought a $50 panettone at a local holiday market, and merry christmas to that version of me because she’s fantastic

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@ATometich

2 years

Really hoping this is another hurricane where the stress leading up to it is worse than the storm itself. Crossing all the fingers

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@ATometich

2 years

Second year attending the @KeyWestLiterary and I’m once again blown away ✨ If this isn’t on your radar, it should be

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Annabelle Tometich

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4 months

Every photo I have from last night is just me going 😍 to Nathan Hill. And I’m perfectly fine with that

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

2 years

This is Fort Myers Beach. My friend’s house is the gray one covered in plywood at the bottom of this photo. There used to be 4 houses to the left of hers and another to the right. They are gone. The office building behind her house is also gone. #HurricaneIan

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2 years

Incredible to share and absorb words with @KieseLaymon today. A stunner of a class.

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1 year

A Twitter appreciation post for @vivianwmlee and budae jjigae 💕

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3 years

🧵 Excited, terrified, thrilled — feeling all the feelings having this essay in @CatapultStory today 🥭

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2 years

@writesloud @annasproul And the clarity of your 40s, finally being able to see what truly matters and doesn’t in your life, it’s magical

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1 year

I’d like to dedicate this National Proofreaders Day to Robyn, who’s not on Twitter, but who saved me from writing “with wonton abandon” once, and for that she is a legend 🥟

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

4 months

So many Filipina hands have helped bring this book into existence, and last night I got to celebrate with two (well, 4 👋🏽) of them. Thank you for an amazing night @gracet09 and @belcantobooks . Your guidance has meant everything 🥭🧡

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2 years

Hi ube doughnut 🥰

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3 years

Honored and thrilled to be among the @PostOpinions 2021 favorites alongside so many amazing authors. Thank you @drewlgoins ! And thank you again @jenduende !!

Opinion | Our favorite Washington Post op-eds of 2021

From tears over a piano to whining in restaurants, these are our favorite op-eds of 2021.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@ATometich

7 years

The @CrossFit Open is our Comic-Con, our March Madness; a time to let your #CrossFit freak flag fly. @CrossFitGames

In the CrossFit Open, the weird get even weirder

Dumbbell jerks, chippers, 17.4 is 16.4? Your weird CrossFit friends only get weirder for the five weeks of the Open.

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Annabelle Tometich

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1 year

Older ✅ Kids ✅ No MFA ✅ Debut book coming out next year ✅ Thank you for the reminder @megpillow 💚

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1 year

If you’re a writer who is older, a writer raising kids, a writer without an MFA, etc. a few reminders: You can be a debut writer without an MFA. You can be a debut writer at any age. And your writing may actually be better for it if you take your time. Keep going.

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6 months

When your literary heroes are reading your work 🧡 😭

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Can’t wait to start @ATometich 😍

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2 years

Feeling seduced

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3 years

First stonies of the season 🪄

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2 years

My kid’s principal emailing parents to tell us the mountainous hurricane debris piles behind the school caught fire last night but things are probably ok … is peak 2020s

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Annabelle Tometich

@ATometich

2 years

Realized 90% of my bedside book stack was #AAPI authors. So I took them outside for some sunshine ☀️ #AAPIHeritageMonth4eva #readdiversebooks @SequoiaN @mirajacob @MeghaMaj @tkiramadden @nicolesjchung @susieyyang @alvincailan @NicolePonseca (and happy June Pride! 🌈 )

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2 years

When the bakery by the soccer field is exactly as spectacular as @Carlos_Frias said it would be

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2 years

“I want tenderness for her. I want it for every queer and trans youth. I want it for Florida, my community;my home. To love a place that refuses to love you back is a heavy burden to bear.” @Kristen_Arnett explains FL as only a Floridian can;gorgeous op-ed

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Annabelle Tometich

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2 years

I’m not the best at bragging on myself, but I was honored to be a Best of Gannett finalist last month. And now a second place win from the Florida Society of News Editors. Feeling grateful 🙏🏽 And a huge congrats to all the winners!

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1 year

@slouisepetersen The “Oooh! Moms night out!” folks referring to any collection of over-30 women out having a good time

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3 years

The St. Louis family introduced us to toasted ravs, and there’s been no turning back

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1 year

In #SWFL , the @ndn and @TheNewsPress , both @gannett newspapers, have lost more than half their staff since 2018. My former colleagues, what few remain, are going on strike to demand fair contracts. I urge you to support them. #localjournalism

The News-Press, Naples Daily News walk-out, organized by Kate Cimini

The reporters and photographers for The News-Press and The Naples Daily News ar… Kate Cimini needs your support for The News-Press, Naples Daily News walk-out

www.gofundme.com

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1 year

Saw the first page layouts for “The Mango Tree” and my eyes are so sweaty 🥹

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3 years

Solving all my problems with overpriced jeans ordered off Instagram #selfcare

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2 years

It’s been a month since I left full-time journalism, and I still wake up freaking out about deadlines most days 💀

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1 year

Leaving @vanjchan ’s @Tin_House workshop feeling EVERY kind of way. So happy to have snagged a spot. If she does this again, don’t walk run

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2 years

What #BigRestaurantBet taught me: guest-judging a @FoodNetwork show is mostly just cringing as you watch yourself eat 🙃 And also a ton of fun :)

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2 years

Happy to have my little food-writing hustle recognized by @SPJFla . Congrats to all the finalists!

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@ATometich

1 year

Put on big-kid clothes and banana earrings for a talk at @fgcu today

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2 years

Last night was fantastic. Thank you @NatalieLima09 🖤 Honored to read alongside @libbytheflores @gabbydozal @shandaMD @Ofeliamv23 @christinekandic @AcademicJuggalo @ElizabethOwuor9 @MindaHoney @jjackso92 @damleon24 — go follow all of them!

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2 years

Wildly excited for this! So many of my favorites in one stunningly/beautifully/hilariously revived remake of Helen Gurley Brown’s classic. Congrats @MindaHoney @NatalieLima09 @melissafebos @Kristen_Arnett @SeemaReza @melissafaliveno (and sooo many more!!! ✨)

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3 years

Watching @DeeshaPhilyaw read SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES, leaving the @KeyWestLiterary audience in awe ✨

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2 years

@CelinaTebor I love this and you look fantastic back there!!

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2 years

@dorkweeb @MindaHoney @danhett Rules is rules

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1 year

Next up: soy sauce, cider vinegar, dark chocolate… so genius #adobocookies #mayumu @theduskykitchen

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2 years

RIP Heavenly Biscuit. Another favorite on #FortMyersBeach

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2 years

Tequila mules because what even are days really

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2 years

Spending the holiday sorting mangoes by ripeness, feels right

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2 months

I love talking to fellow journalists about this book and how it started as a “Florida woman” headline. TLDR: pls don’t trespass and steal mangoes. Thanks @kathrynvarn and @axios 🥭 🧡

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@ATometich

2 years

A great (cheap!!!) tapas and wine joint in Fort Myers?! Yes. I cannot wait for this review to come out

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2 years

Made kale, white bean, wild rice soup for my Valentine* (*bestie who’s not feeling well ❤️‍🩹)

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4 months

Happy 1 month birthday to THE MANGO TREE!! To celebrate: four of my favorite book tour ‘fits because I’ve spent two years planning these and that’s a tremendous investment for someone who wears ratty T-shirts most days

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@ATometich

5 months

This means so much. Thank you @CharlesRunnells for this and all your wisdom and advice through the years. THE MANGO TREE made it into my hometown paper, my workplace of 18 years, my home away from home 🥭

Charles Runnells

@CharlesRunnells

5 months

I’m honored to get to write this one. My friend and former colleague, @ATometich , left journalism to write books. And her debut memoir is heartfelt, beautifully written and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. I’m so damn proud of her.

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2 years

It’s hard to take PG pictures of smoked sausage but look what arrived today?!!! My deeply southern mother in law knows the way to my Filipina heart. Pork

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1 year

Somebunny brought Asian supermarket snacks!!!!!

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2 years

Every day at 4:30 the landscape guys who live behind us get home and it’s these doofuses favorite thing

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@ATometich

4 months

What better way to celebrate the start of #AANHPIHeritageMonth than with this 🥭 shout out from the luminous @hanbae in the @sfchronicle . My Filipina heart is bursting

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@ATometich

3 months

The mangoes are back in the @washingtonpost (whut?!) along with some seriously mind blowing company 🥭 👀

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@ATometich

3 years

Got my hot little (er, giant) hands on an early copy of @jamiattenberg ’s memoir at @KeyWestLiterary ’s @booksandbookskw tent and there are Sid stickers inside!!!

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2 years

Just bawling with my daughter at the National Portrait Museum 😔

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@ATometich

4 months

It was so good to see you! The ATL 🥭 love was abundant yesterday 🥹

Erica Van Buren📹📸🖊

@EricaVanBuren32

4 months

I’m so proud of @ATometich my amazing and talented friend. Can’t wait to read #themangotree

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3 years

The only thing better than an empanada — six empanadas

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3 months

In bloom 🥭 Christina Marie Photography for a profile in #GulfShorelife 🧡

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2 years

@NDN_HarrietHeit I ship to friends when they’re mostly green still but with a tiny bit of yellow/red so hopefully they ripen soon after landing :)

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4 months

TONIGHT at 7, join me and NYT bestseller Nathan Hill (!!) at the Barnes & Noble in #FortMyers . We’ll be talking mangoes, midlife crises and the stories that define us 🥭 x 🔺 And I will be trying *so hard* to keep my cool (!!!!)