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Close enough to touch

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Author:
Oakley, Colleen
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A 28-year-old recluse with a unique allergy to physical contact with other people is forced to reenter the world after her mother's death, finding friendship with a 10-year-old troubled boy and love with his adoptive father.

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Adoptive parents
Adoptive parents -- Fiction
Allergy
Allergy -- Fiction
Death
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Friendship
Friendship -- Fiction
Intimacy (Psychology)
Intimacy (Psychology) -- Fiction
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Medicine
Medicine -- Fiction
Mothers
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
Romance fiction
Sensory disorders
Sensory disorders -- Fiction
Touch
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Women
Women -- Fiction

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ISBN:
9781982160456
9781432838829
9781508230786
9781501139260

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Last Indexed2025-11-02 01:55:47AM

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