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By TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER on June 25, 2015

Published in: July-August 2015 issue.

JAMIE BRICKHOUSE freely and blithely admits in his new memoir that he “had no business being a child.” Then again, he never was a child, really, as becomes evident from his earliest memories.

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Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir
by Jamie Brickhouse
St. Martin’s Press. 288 pages, $25.99

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