Remembering Helen Gurley Brown: Of Mouseburgers, Scuttling And The Legacy Of The Cosmo Girl
To proclaim to be a "Cosmo girl" nowadays is to have the world look at you with a half-smirk and assume your literary knowledge is limited to romance novels. You're just that: A girl, not a woman. 

But that wasn't always the case.
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