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By Anna Kirwan
The year is 1879. Beautiful and headstrong orphan Aurelia Sandborn has no family to call her own. Fleeing from her sinister guardian, Aurelia finds herself in a Massachusetts village, where the townsfolk seem all too curious about her mysterious background. When Aurelia meets a charming boy named Wayland, she would like to open her heart to him, but feels she cannot. Surprisingly she finds herself confiding the artist Winslow Homer, who is painting her portrait. And Homer himself may hold the key to the very truth about Aurelia's past...and future.
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Was that all she needed to say to get the sort of job she could manage?
She is good at taking care of chickens and dogs, she added. She was not sure why it seemed the thing to do. The Sinclairs had never kept either a henhouse or a dog, but Aurelia thought she was sure to be good at such work, and might as well try to find it, while she was at it. And has had some work helping car for a baby.
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