PAINTED DRESSES
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Scripture quotations or paraphrases are taken from the following versions: King James Version. New American Standard Bible®. © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org).

The characters and events in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons or events is coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Patricia Hickman

Published in association with the literary division of Ambassador Agency, Franklin, Tennessee.

The songwriters of “Digging Up Bones” are Paul Overstreet, Al Gore, and (deceased) Nat Stucky; Scarlet Moon Records, Screen Gems/EMI Music, and Tree International.
All rights reserved. Used with permission from Scarlet Moon Music Inc.,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hickman, Patricia.

  Painted dresses: a novel / Patricia Hickman. — 1st ed.
    p. cm.

  1. Family secrets—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.12296P35 2008
813′.54—dc22

2008008378

eISBN: 978-0-307-49896-0

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