© 2012 by Joan Wolf

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Scripture quotations taken from the NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION of the Bible. © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wolf, Joan.
  This scarlet cord / Joan Wolf.
      p. cm.

  ISBN 978-1-59554-877-1 (trade paper)

  I. Title.
  PS3573.O486S27 2012
  813'.54—dc23

2012010908

Printed in the United States of America

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