The Handmaid's Tale

An excerpt from Margaret Atwood's classic story, The Handmaid's Tale.

This is a word of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
First Anchor Books Edition, April 1998
Copyright © 1986 by O. W. Toad, Ltd.

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