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  Published in 2009 by the Feminist Press

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  Text © 2009 by Marilyn French

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  French, Marilyn, 1929-2009 The love children / by Marilyn French. p. cm.

  eISBN : 978-1-558-61650-9

  I. Title.

  PS3556.R42L’.54—dc22

  2009010439