ALSO BY CHERYL MENDELSON

NONFICTION

Home Comforts

FICTION

Morningside Heights

Love, Work, Children

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Text copyright © 1999, 2005 by Cheryl Mendelson

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2005051602

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7145-5

ISBN-10: 0-7432-7145-9

eISBN-13: 978-1-439-18856-9

Portions of this book were previously published in somewhat different form in Home Comforts.