LITMIR.BIZ

      This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Published by Akashic Books

      ©2012 by Bernice L. McFadden

      eISBN-13: 978-1-61775-110-3

      Hardcover Print ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-032-8

      Hardcover Library of Congress Control Number: 2011923109

      Paperback Print ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-031-1

      Paperback Library of Congress Control Number: 2011922902

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       For Richard May & Lula Mae Hilson-May

       You are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter; ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.

      —Swami Vivekananda, 1893