Copyright © 2005 by Gilbert Morris

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Scripture taken from the King James Version.

Publisher’s Note: this novel is a work of fiction. All characters, plots, and events are the product of the author’s imagination. All characters are fictional, and any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morris, Gilbert.

The tapestry / Gilbert Morris & Lynn Morris.

p. cm.—(The Creoles series ; 4)

ISBN 0-7852-7005-1 (pbk.)

1. Women—Louisiana—Fiction. 2. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction. 3. Creoles—Fiction. I. Morris, Lynn. II. Title.

PS3563.O8742T37 2005

813'.54—dc22

2004028699

Printed in the United States of America

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