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TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER. Copyright © 1948 by Betty Smith. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1948 by Harper & Brothers Publishers.

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FIRST HARPER & ROW EDITION PUBLISHED 1971.

FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL MODERN CLASSICS EDITION PUBLISHED 2020.

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