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The Love Wife
Knopf, Sep 2004, 25.00 ISBN: 1400042135 His mother hated it when second generation Chinese-American Carnegie married “Blondie” instead of a Chinese. In spite of his mother's objections, Carnegie and Janie (“Blondie”) seem to get on fine and eventually adopt two Asian children (fifteen years old Lizzy and nine years old Wendy). Fifteen months ago Blondie gave birth to their first natural born child, a son named Bailey. Before dying from Alzhe...