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FROM: "Luebering, Joan" <[removed]@cincinnatilibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/8/05, 12:06 PM

Does anyone recognize these opening sentences of a novel? "He came home in mid afternoon, hurrying through the alley. She was sitting on the back step of the unpainted two-room house, peeling willow twigs with her teeth and watching the boy chase butterflies among the tall horseweeds."

Joan Luebering
Assistant Manager, Fiction & Young Adults Department
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
(513) 665-3347 fax (513) 369-3123
[removed]@cincinnatilibrary.org

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