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Childwold

A Literary Fiction Novel

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A lonely middle-aged eccentric named Kasch falls in love with a beautiful fourteen-year-old girl named Laney and becomes fatefully involved with her family, inhabitants of the distant, impoverished, but enchanting region of Childwold.

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