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THE LOST FATHER. By Mona Simpson. Knopf. 506 pp. $22.

My mother never lost her faith in men,

but after years, it became more

general. She believed a man would come and

be my father, some man. It didn't have

to be our original one, the one we'd

prayed to first as one and only. Any

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