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Excerpt from Bathed in Prayer copyright © 2018 by Jan Karon

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“When They Sleep” by Rolf Jacobsen, translation by Robert Hedin, from The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen (Copper Canyon Press, 2001). Translation reprinted by permission of Robert Hedin.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Karon, Jan.

Title: To be where you are / Jan Karon.

Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2017] | Series: A Mitford novel; 14

Identifiers: LCCN 2017026335 (print) | LCCN 2017030276 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399183751 (ePub) | ISBN 9780399183737 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Kavanagh, Timothy (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Mitford (N.C. : Imaginary place)—Fiction. | Episcopalians—Fiction. | Clergy—Fiction. | Marriage—Fiction. | Weddings—Fiction. | Domestic

fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Christian / General. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Christian fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3561.A678 (ebook) | LCC PS3561.A678 T63 2017 (print) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026335

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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