Believe Me
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“Oh, Les,” I wanted to say as he ran toward me, clumsy and heedless in his puffy snowsuit, “please forgive me for the days you’re about to go through.” But I do have a gift, I thought. A direction my son, himself, led me to. A way of talking about faith, a way of caring for the dying. A way of holding steadfast in the world.
PATRICIA PEARSON is a wife, a mother and an award-winning writer. She has won two National Magazine Awards, a National Author’s Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for best true crime book for When She Was Bad. Her first novel about the life of Frannie Mackenzie, Playing House, was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
About the Author
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