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THE INNOCENTS
Laura Lippman
Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © Laura Lippman 2012
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Version 2018-07-23
For Georgia Rae Simon
Alas for maiden, alas for Judge,
For rich repiner and household drudge!
God pity them both! and pity us all,
Who vainly the dreams of youth recall.
—JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, “MAUD MULLER”
Table of Contents
Chapter Four: Autumn 1977–Spring 1978
Chapter Ten: Autumn 1978–Winter 1979
Chapter Fourteen: September 5, 1979
Chapter Twenty-One: Summer 1980
