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A Civil Action

Jonathan Harr wrote a book titled, A Civil Action. The book tells the true story about the legal case of Anderson vs. Cryovac. The case was about water contamination done by 2 companies in a small town, Woburn, MA. The story tells how the water contamination affected several families in the town and also how the lawsuit affects the lawyer who tries the case. There are children in the town getting leukemia and dying. A woman in town named, Anne Anderson has a 3-year old son who is the latest child to become ill with leukemia. She begins to do research to find the cause of his illness. Anne finds out that there is a cancer cluster in their town. There is one factor that all the children have in common and that

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