Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 1998 by Willina Lane Productions, Inc.

Reading group guide copyright by Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Warner Bros. Publications U.S., Inc., for permission to reprint excerpts from “You’re All the World to Me” by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner, copyright © 1949 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., and copyright renewed 1977 by EMI Miller Catalog, Inc., and excerpts from “You’re the Top” by Cole Porter, copyright © 1934 (renewed) by Warner Bros., Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Warner Bros. Publications U.S., Inc.,

Miami, FL 33014.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-109768

eISBN: 978-0-307-79095-8

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