The Optimist's Daughter
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Eudora Welty. (2011). The Optimist's Daughter. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Eudora Welty. 2011. The Optimist's Daughter. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Eudora Welty. The Optimist's Daughter. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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