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This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Chris LaFata’s, Washington’s Providence makes one wonder if there is more to what happened in the past than we actually understand. This story is a very unique and different than anything I have ever read in my life. I believe this is the only book by Chris LaFata, which surprised me because he is such a great author. I love both history and science and this was a mixture of both. I was always so intrigued with the ideas of time travel and because of this, I got sucked right into the book and just could not put it down. There were some flaws in the book though… I could figure Each sentence is dissected, and all the source websites from where the content was copied are displayed. out most of

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