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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright 2022 by Carolyn Brown

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ISBNs: 978-1-5387-3563-3 (mass market); 978-1-5387-3565-7 (ebook)

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Dedication

This is for my friend, Laura Drake.

With hugs for all the support!

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Letter from Carolyn Brown

Dear Reader,

I’m finishing this book just as spring pushes winter into the history books. After this past year with all the problems that covid (I refuse to capitalize that word in hopes that I will offend it so badly that it dies in its sleep) has brought to us, I’m glad to see spring coming around. I’m hoping it will bring new life to the whole world and restore some semblance of normal into our lives.

As always there are so many people to thank for helping me take Texas Homecoming from a rough idea to the book you hold in your hands. Some of those have gone on past this lifetime, but they remain in my heart and give me the courage to keep writing. A saying about life says: “You don’t meet people by accident. There’s always a reason—a lesson or a blessing!” Many of the people I have met have taught me valuable lessons, and many others have brought a blessing into my life.