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Robert Goolrick

A Reliable Wife

In rural Wisconsin in 1907, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. Bookmark and Share

 

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