© 2012 by Robert Whitlow

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Publisher’s note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Whitlow, Robert, 1954-
   The choice / Robert Whitlow.
      p. cm.

   ISBN 978-1-4016-8561-4 (trade paper)

   I. Title.
   PS3573.H49837C48 2012
   813’.54--dc23

2012014941

Printed in the United States of America

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