Copyright © 2012 Kathleen Alcott
eISBN: 978-1-59051-530-3
Production Editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Alcott, Kathleen.
    The dangers of proximal alphabets / Kathleen Alcott.
        p. cm.
1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction.   2. Childhood—Fiction.   3. Art—Fiction.   4. Domestic fiction.   I. Title.
    PS3601.L344 D36 2012
    813′.6—dc23

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Publisher’s Note:

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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