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    Bayou Christmas Memory
    Bayou Christmas Memory
    Bayou Christmas Memory
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    Bayou Christmas Memory

    By Chris Segura

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    Remembrance of a magical Christmas in the Bayou country of southwestern Louisiana.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Segura
    Release dateNov 25, 2011
    ISBN9780983287216
    Bayou Christmas Memory
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    Chris Segura

    Chris Segura has worked as a freelance and staff journalist, short-story writer and novelist on five continents. He currently lives and writes in Abbeville, Louisiana, where he was born.

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