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KINGDOMTIDE
Rye Curtis
4th Estate
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2019
Copyright © Rye Curtis 2020
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Source ISBN: 9780008317690
Ebook Edition © January 2020 ISBN: 9780008317713
Version: 2019-12-04
For Mimi
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
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II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Publisher
I no longer pass judgment on any man nor woman. People are people, and I do not believe there is much more to be said on the matter. Twenty years ago I might have been of a different mind about that, but I was a different Cloris Waldrip back then. I might have gone on being that same Cloris Waldrip, the one I had been for seventy-two years, had I not fallen out of the sky in that little airplane on Sunday, August 31, 1986. It does amaze