The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap (edit title/settings)

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• Mildred Dunlap: Mildred has been bullied and persecuted all her life. She is a strong kind self-reliant woman who keeps to herself and her only close relationship, Edra.
• Edra Fitzgerald: Edra is a beautiful woman who carries trauma deep inside her.
• Charley Milpass: Charley suffers the unthinkable loss, of the love of his life, which forever alters his life and way of thinking.
• Josie Purdue: Josie, a toxic opinion leader, harbors a commanding heart of hatred.
• Gus: The voice of reason.
• Dunlop: Hard as a nut on the outside, but soft as an egg on the inside. Finds it hard to display her true emotions.
• Nedelea Sabrina: Add a description of this character.
• Satchel Purdue
• Ben Thorndike: A trusted and loyal ranch hand
• Harry Peterson
• Rose
• Joshua
• Johnny Nestor
• Max Dunlap
• Alfred Dreyfus
• Bradford
• Annalee Smartley
• Harold Simmons
• Emerson
• Jake Cummings
• Mr. Tobias
• Matt Roper
• Olney
• Sam Larue
• Josiah Wedgwood
• Madeline Trentwood
• Frank Whitmore
• Cleveland
• Pat Green
• Sherman
• Joseph Reddeford Walker
• Auntie Mildred
• Bert Langley
• Doc Nichols
• Emma Milpass
• Helene Whitmore
• Frankie Whitmore
• Oscar Wilde
• Rebecca Jenkins
• Mabel Whitmore
• Pursey Funkle
• Amos Jenkins
• Georgia
• Hanah Larue

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• “Gus looked over at the stacks of books. “That’s why I read so much. A book isn’t going to hurt me. A book isn’t going to form some opinion about me that could wreck my life. I learn about so many new and great things from reading. I keep to myself with a good book and a shot of whiskey and I’m right with the world.He was frustrated by the ignorance he saw all around him, the lack of compassion and understanding, even worse the complete poverty of any comprehension that a poison lived inside these individuals and as long as they kept pointing fingers and saw their hatred outside of themselves, nothing would come but destruction.”

  Gus

• “How I was raised is irrelevant. It’s how I feel now. What do I believe now? What has experience taught me? Have I used my head to look for myself? Or am I a puppet to someone else’s ideas?”

  Gus

• ““Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others.”

  Oscar Wilde in Epilogue

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• Charley
• Carson City
• Satchel
• Ohio
• Britain
• Georgia
• France
• England

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1. Paulette Mahurin (Author)

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• Books › Literature & Fiction

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• The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap: Contains reviews from Amazon & Goodreads, press and magazine coverage, articles written and interviews done by the author, where the book is sold.
• Goodreads: The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap: Has giveaways from time to time. Currently running through Sept. 25, 2012 5 books. Feel free to post a review or comment.
• Ventura County Star Press: Largest newspaper in Ventura County with a circulation of over 830,000 customers did an article in the Sunday Life Section Front Page, September 9, 2012 which mentions the inspiration for the writing of the book, why profits are going to the Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center (the first and only no-kill animal shelter in VC, CA, where the author lives), and Paulette Mahurin's long bout with Lyme Disease.
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