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Your use of the written word is magical as always. This painted so many vivid images, and the beginning brought back so many memories of past dealings with Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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Thinking about ten-year-old Alice's first kiss, I'm wondering how traumatic it would have been if she had learned the "future husband" nonsense shortly thereafter.

I could read your writing all day. I feel I can picture everything in this chapter. Thank you for sharing these deleted chapters. They are too good to never be read.

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