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Trained as a lawyer, she worked for an international human rights organization and as a litigator at a corporate law firm in london and new york. Tara conklin is a writer and lawyer currently living with her family in seattle, wa. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the house girl. The other, lina, is a lawyer in present day new york.
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