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    Scarlet Cinders
    Scarlet Cinders
    Scarlet Cinders
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    Scarlet Cinders

    By Martha Letterman

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    Scarlet Cinders explores the 50s and 60s Northwest Washington, DC from the point of view of a young girl experiencing events larger than herself which formed her Personal Opera of life. In three acts, these events played out. She loved her grandparents' Letterman Tourist Home in its grand old years and then watched it being torn down to make way

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShelden Studios
    Release dateFeb 28, 2023
    ISBN9781960522047
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