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Back in print for the first time in nearly thirty years, here is Yoko Ono's whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life.

"Burn this book after you've read it." -- Yoko

"A dream you dream alone may be a dream, but a dream two people…

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Just as I became a huge Yoko Ono fan when she began singing and recording with John Lennon, I discovered the new edition of her book, which features everything from poetry to artwork to incredibly creative instructions for art and life itself! 

Plus, the fact that Lennon wrote the introduction to this second edition was tremendously exciting, especially when I went to New York to interview them and brought my copy with me, which got them both so very thrilled they couldn’t wait to talk to me about it and autograph it for me! Their Grapefruit autographs appear in my…

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