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Coast Road by Barbara Delinsky

Coast Road

by Barbara Delinsky
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  • Apr 1, 1999, 368 pages
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  • May 1999, 447 pages
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When it was done, she sat on the bed with pencil and paper and drew him, and what emerged said it all. With her hands, her mind, her heart she made him into something finer than he had ever been before. She was his angel, and he was in love.

Reproduced with the permission of Simon & Schuster.
Copyright © 1998 by Barbara Delinsky.

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