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Authors: Virginia Hamilton

BOOK: Bluish

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Hamilton on Thanksgiving in 2001. This photo was taken by her niece, Nina Rios, a professional photographer, after Hamilton’s last round of chemotherapy, only a few months before her death.

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978-1-4532-4671-9

This edition published in 2011 by Open Road Integrated Media

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