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    Fleeing

    By Jean Francis

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    An old woman now, Bethany and her friends sit around a table, eating popcorn, sipping hot tea and working on jigsaw puzzles. She replays her life. Did she make the right decisions? Is she fulfilled? Any regrets? Well, it was certainly exciting and terrifying. And of course, there was that murder...."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewman Springs Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateJan 31, 2020
    ISBN9781640967236
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