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    "Just Fine Thank You": Growing Up with Family Secrets
    "Just Fine Thank You": Growing Up with Family Secrets
    "Just Fine Thank You": Growing Up with Family Secrets
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    "Just Fine Thank You": Growing Up with Family Secrets

    By Evelyn M. Leite

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    This is the first book in the chronological order of the life of the author. Experience with her the family mysteries and turmoil. Be transported in time as Leite reveals what life was like growing up in rural America, caught between the “haves and the have nots” during the 1940s. Feel with her what daily life was then, the hardships

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLiving With Solutions
    Release dateMar 1, 2020
    ISBN9781733540971
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