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"'Love and Consequences'--has there ever been a more prophetic title for a novel in the history of publishing?" I offered up that query to my wife this past week in response to the news that author Margaret B. Jones was forced to disclose that much of her supposed autobiographical novel by that name was pure fiction. In the book, subtitled "A Memoir of Hope and Survival," Jones (real name: Margaret Seltzer) details her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up as a gangbanger on the tough streets of South Los Angeles.