The Three Miss Margarets (29 page)

The Three Miss Margarets
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 2003 by Louise Shaffer

Reader’s Guide copyright © 2004 by Louise Shaffer and Random House, Inc.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2004092979

This book was originally published in hardcover form by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2003.

eISBN: 978-0-345-47864-1

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