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PAULLINA SIMONS
THE GIRL IN TIMES SQUARE
Harper
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2005
Copyright © Paullina Simons 2004
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Source ISBN: 9780007118939
Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780007383979
Version: 2018-05-24
For my sister, Elizabeth, as ever searching And for Melanie Cain, who has been to the crying room
In the Vatican after they have chosen a new pope, they lead him to a room off the Sistine Chapel where he is given the clothing of a pope. It is called the Crying Room. It is called that because it is there that the burdens and responsibilities of the papacy tend to come crashing down on the new pontiff. Many of them have wept. The best have wept.
PEGGY NOONAN
Contents
1. Appearing To Be One Thing When it is in Fact Another
3. An Hour at the 9th Precinct
8. The Disadvantages of Walking to Work
11. Spencer Patrick O’Malley and Lilianne Quinn
13. Lily and the City of Dreams
16. Reality: The Actual Thing that it Appears to Be