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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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I Shall not Live in Vain

I Shall not Live in Vain

Luongo, Jim

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798315144489
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 22 2025
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Lena Lombardi, at eight years old, loses her immigrant parents to the Spanish Flu, a local priest and friend of the family helps her adjust to the Presbyterian Orphanage of Philadelphia. She spends her adolescence there and at sixteen becomes a member of the staff, living at the Presbyterian Home for Widows and Single Women, nearby, grateful not to be in the Philadelphian bread lines of the Great Depression. When the opportunity arises for Lena at twenty years old to become a housekeeper for Alan Woodruff, a wealthy resident of the seaside village of Cape May Point, New Jersey, she leaves the security of the orphanage and converts Mr Woodruff's dysfunctional family of a grandfather, father, and son into a first time home of her own.

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