Copyright © 1992 by Darcey Steinke

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Published simultaneously in Canada

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FIRST GROVE PRESS EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Steinke, Darcey.

Suicide blonde / Darcey Steinke.

ISBN 9780802193216

I. Title.

PS3569.T37924S85  1992   813'54—dc20  92-03754

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Epigraph copyright © 1992 by Bill Rutherford

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