The beautiful fiction of Disneyland
Inside my obsession with the Happiest Place on Earth

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Mary Birnbaum is a writer living in Orange County, California. She is the blog editor and editor of the Diana Woods Memorial Prize for nonfiction at Lunch Ticket, the literary journal of Antioch University Los Angeles. Mary is on Twitter: @ailishbirnbaum.
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