to my mother and father with love
LITTLE WOMEN Prologue Introduction: “Four little chests” Mark Adamo (Concord, Massachusetts. The 1870s. The attic of the March house: dusty, not uncluttered, but a living space, a refuge. Slanting light of a dark afternoon.Upstage, glimpsed as if through mist, four chests, each with a name—Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy—carved into the lid.)
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*Inside piano with soft brush. Copyright © 1998 by G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP), New York, NY All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Warning: Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited by Federal law and subject to criminal prosecution
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