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FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 1/15/00, 7:10 AM

Hi,Super Sleuths!
A customer in my store gave me a lengthy description of a book he has been
trying for years to find again. He read it 20 or 30 years ago. Can any of you
help me with a title and author? (It sounds like a tear jerker to me!)

It begins at a cattle ranch in northern Spain.(near Santillana/Santander?)
Elderly ranch owner-violent argument with workers-has heart attack-dies.
Ranch manager,a German Jew,has been having an affair with daughter of the
ranch owner. Her husband is an incurably ill invalid.
Daughter and mother move to California-set up ranch south of San Francisco.
Daughter goes to doctor and learns she has cancer.
Walking down the street she runs into former ranch manager,who has emigrated
to Mexico and has a wife and child there. He is in S.F. on business.
They discover they are still in love-go to her Calif. ranch.
He has to go back to Mexico-says he will come back to Calif. the following
year.
She says "you will find me here"-clear implication she will be dead of cancer
and buried next to her mother.
It was a NY Times Sunday book review-listed book on best seller page,but
under category of "Bear In Mind" or other general category.

TIA for any help you can give.
Cynthia Parker

FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 1/28/00, 5:48 AM

Blair: Thank you so much for the title/author answer to my search. I can't
wait to inform my customer. I know he will be pleased. Cynthia Parker

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