After Julia

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The Durants’ Victorian household operated effi ciently until a spring day in 1911 when the nanny left her cherished charge, four-yearold Julia, alone at play. Life for occupants of the Druid Heights mansion of Baltimore, Maryland permanently changed both upstairs and down following the child’s death. Follow individual family members and servants for a year during which the spirit of little Julia roams, lonely and puzzled that no one can see her, hear her. She silently watches her father grieve while both her nanny and her mother are sent away, and others come and go as their lives are altered.

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