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Jennie Gerhardt Chapter 27

In which Lester Kane, caught between family duty and personal desire, wrestles with his place in a shifting business empire while considering his relationship with Jennie amid the pressures of societal expectation. Jennie, burdened with the care of her child and the fracturing of her family home, resolves to entrust Vesta’s future to the kindness of a stranger as she embarks upon a new life in Chicago.

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