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  • I wanted to be free of Uncle Jake: his remarks to Mother, his hold on Dad, his guns, his goons, his whiskey and cigars, even the sicklysweet smell of him that still haunted our living room.

    Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

  • I wanted to be free of Uncle Jake: his remarks to Mother, his hold on Dad, his guns, his goons, his whiskey and cigars, even the sicklysweet smell of him that still haunted our living room.

    Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

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