Copyright © 2014 by Kimberly Cash Tate

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Scripture quotations are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®. © The Lockman Foudnation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission.

Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

ISBN 978-1-40168-485-3 (eBook)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tate, Kimberly Cash.

Hidden Blessings / Kim Cash Tate.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-59554-999-0 (paperback)

1. African American women--Fiction. 2. Cancer--Patients--Fiction. 3. Christian fiction. I. Title.

PS3620.A885H53 2014

813’.6--dc23

2014011025

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