Miss Jane

Author’s Note

Inspired in part by circumstances in the life of my maternal great-aunt, Miss Jane is

nonetheless a work of fiction: names, characters, places, and incidents are the product

of my imagination, or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales,

or persons, living or dead, is coincidental and unintentional.

Copyright © 2016 by Brad Watson

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