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©. 1956 by Alice Childress
Introduction copyright ©. 1986 by Beacon Press
Published originally by Independence Publishers, Brooklyn, New York
First published as a Beacon Paperback in 1986 by arrangement with the author
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First digital-print edition 2001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Childress, Alice.
Like one of the family.
(Black women writers series)
Originally published: Brooklyn : Independence Publishers, [1956].
Bibliography: p.
ISBN 0-8070-0903-2
eISBN 978-0-8070-9665-9
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3505.H76L5 1986
813’.54    86-73367