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First published in the US by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Text © Dianne Lake 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780008274764
Ebook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780008261481
Version 2018-03-09
To the victims and their families; those who needlessly
lost their lives and those who continue to suffer because of
the madness of this dark time in our shared history. May
God’s grace prevail and heal the pain that remains.
CONTENTS
12 Panhandling and Postulating
It is time for me to exorcise my own demons and to face the truth as much as I can remember it. In this book, I have shared what I can re-create through straining my memory muscle,