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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Nora Durkin Enterprises, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

ISBN 978-1-5011-7164-2

ISBN 978-1-5011-7165-9 (ebook)