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December 31, 2012
In the last days of the Chinese Empire, Pickens, a New England blueblood, arrives in the Forbidden City to tutor the young emperor, bidden by the ghost of a lost childhood love, the “darling, darling Annabelle.' In the lantern-lit corridors, Pickens finds not Annabelle but her seeming . . . (Subscription required.)
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