Authors: Mary Daheim
“It was beautiful,” I conceded. Then, after a few more steps, I said what I really felt.
“But I didn’t like it.”
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is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 2005 by Mary Daheim
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