Traveling with Pomegranates

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Kidd, Sue Monk.

Traveling with pomegranates : a mother daughter story / by Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-14491-6

1. Kidd, Sue Monk—Travel—Greece. 2. Kidd, Sue Monk—Family. 3. Mothers and daughters—United States. 4. Authors, American—21st century—Biography. 5. Taylor, Ann Kidd. I. Taylor, Ann Kidd. II. Title.

PS3611.I44Z’.6 B—dc22 2009009388

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