Ursula: A Voyage of Love and DramaBeautiful, smart, talented, impatient, dissatisfied, critical, Ursula was many things to many people. In a life filled with love and drama, hope and disappointment, she had to reinvent herself again and again. Her pampered childhood in Germany ended abruptly in flight from the coming Nazi terror. |
Contents
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Chapter Three A Ranch in Chile | 49 |
Chapter Four The Story Weaver | 67 |
Chapter Fourteen Finding a Father | 241 |
Acknowledgements | 285 |
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