© 2003 by Angela Elwell Hunt

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hunt, Angela Elwell, 1957–

The canopy / by Angela Hunt.

p. cm.

ISBN 10: 0-8499-4345-0 (softcover)

ISBN 13: 978-0-8499-4345-4 (softcover)

I. Title.

PS3558.U46747C36 2003

813'.54—dc21 2003004904

Printed in the United States of America

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