title: Linen: a metaphor of codependency
author: Lea Frances
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  Agnieszka Gralińska-Toborek, Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk – University of Łódź 
  Faculty of Philosophy and History, The Department of Ethics 
  90-131 Łódź, 3/5 Lindleya St.
  REVIEWER
  Krystyna Wilkoszewska
  INITIATING EDITOR
  Damian Rusek
  TYPESETTING
  AGENT PR
  ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONSULTANT
  Marta Koniarek
  TECHNICAL EDITOR
  Leonora Wojciechowska
  COVER DESIGN
  Katarzyna Turkowska
  © Copyright by Authors, Łódź 2016
  © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2016
  © Copyright for this edition by Fundacja Urban Forms, Łódź 2016
  Published by Łódź University Press
  First Edition. W.07417.16.0.K
  Publisher’s sheets 9.5; printing sheets 12.375
  ISBN 978-83-8088-151-8
  e-ISBN 978-83-8088-152-5
  ISBN Fundacja Urban Forms 978-83-939800-1-7
  Łódź University Press
  90-131 Łódź, 8 Lindleya St.
  www.wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl
  e-mail: ksiegarnia@uni.lodz.pl
  tel. (42) 665 58 63
  
  CONTENTS
  NOTES ON THE PHOTOS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ..............................  
  7
  INTRODUCTION ..............................