title: Special Assignment (Avalon Romance)
author:  Kathleen Fuller 
description: Kathleen Fuller is the author of two short novellas, several short stories, and numerous non-fiction articles. She lives in Geneva, Ohio, with her husband James and their three children.
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  Table of Contents
  
   _ _Title Page__
  
   _ _Dedication__
  
   _ _PROLOGUE: BREAKING UP__
  
   _CHAPTER ONE_
  
   _CHAPTER TWO_
  
   _CHAPTER THREE_
  
   _CHAPTER FOUR_
  
   _CHAPTER FIVE_
  
   _CHAPTER SIX_
  
   _CHAPTER SEVEN_
  
   _CHAPTER EIGHT_
  
   _CHAPTER NINE_
  
   _CHAPTER TEN_
  
   _CHAPTER ELEVEN_
  
   _MARTIN & LEWIS BOOED AT PALLADIUM OPENING_
  
   _CHAPTER TWELVE_
  
   _CHAPTER THIRTEEN_
  
   _In Tonight’s Performance, Miss Carol Haney’s Role Will Be Played by Miss
  Shirley MacLaine_
  
   _CHAPTER FOURTEEN_
  
   _CHAPTER FIFTEEN_
  
   _CHAPTER SIXTEEN_
  
   _CHAPTER SEVENTEEN_
  
   _CHAPTER EIGHTEEN_
  
   _ _AFTERWORD: GOOD-BYE, HELLO__
  
   _ _Acknowledgments__
  
   _ _About the Author__
  
   _ _Copyright Page__
  
   _For Dani, the young lady who is the air in my lungs,_  
   _and her young mother, who is the beat in my heart,_  
   _thank you both for getting me to here._  
  
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  PHILIPPE HALSMAN, _LIFE,_ 1951
  
  PROLOGUE: BREAKING UP
  
  MOST OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD WASN’T AWARE OF THE GULF that had grown bet