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It’s Momplicated: Hope and Healing for Imperfect Daughters of Imperfect Mothers
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Alsdorf, Debbie, author.
Title: It’s momplicated : hope and healing for imperfect daughters of imperfect mothers / Debbie Alsdorf, Joan Edwards Kay, MA, LMFT.
Description: Carol Stream, Illinois : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018017670 | ISBN 9781496435903 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781496426574 (sc : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Mothers and daughters—Religious aspects—Christianity. | Mothers and daughters. | Mothers—Religious life. | Daughters—Religious life.
Classification: LCC BV4529.18 .A54 2018 | DDC 248.8/431—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018017670