Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Lloyd Fernando first with Beatrice

first with Beatrice

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risking not just their own lives but the fate of the cosmos

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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Lloyd Fernando first with BeatriceThey were never girls, they were witches . . . . They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And theyre sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen year old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened,