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State College author despises her own whiteness and her bushy eyebrows. In another example of white, upper-middle class self-loathing, a State College author admitted that her best-selling memoir, "A Hoagie in the Sun," is a fake. The book, which was January's top selection in Oprah's Fiction-Non-Fiction of the Month Club, was written by Marissa Upton-Sinclair, of State College, under the pseudonym Shelly Earnhardt Martin. In the book, Upton-Sinclair writes of being born to mixed parentage: her father was a redneck, her mother was a hick. The book goes on to detail her life as a Tyrone teenager: hustling hoagies on the streets, smiting under the injustice of being too poor to purchase a decent-fitting pair of pants and a bigger bicycle, and pretending to be in a pretend street gang. Suspicions fell on Upton-Sinclair when she used the word, "germane," in a recent interview with New York Times journalist, Blair Jayson. "Oh, come on, a teenager in Tyrone thinks that germane is a country we fought in the Civil War," Jayson said. "That's just pathetic." Upton-Sinclair, who now sports dreadlocks and speaks in a thick Haitian accent, admits her book was fraudulent and that her dreadlocks cost $200 to maintain. "I admit it was all untrue," Upton-Sinclair said. "But when I-99 almost opened up, I took the wrong exit and encountered the dark world of the Tyrone teenager. I felt someone had to tell their story, as they were too busy walking up and down the streets pushing baby carriages and smoking cigarettes." Upton-Sinclair said her work was meant to raise awareness about Tyrone and also get back at her parents for driving an SUV. Other headlines... State College fears blue collar workers may invade. Amish work too loud. Clinton disturbed at lack of hotties in Johnstown. Blames GOP.
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