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WOULDN’T TAKE NOTHING FOR
MY JOURNEY NOW

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PUBLISHING HISTORY
Random House edition published 1993
Bantam mass market edition / November 1994
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A portion of this work was originally published
in the December 1992 issue of Essence magazine.

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