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PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
ALLMERICA FINANCIAL LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY
SEPARATE ACCOUNT VA-P
SUPPLEMENT TO PROSPECTUS DATED MAY 1, 1997
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Effective for all Contracts issued on or after July 18, any portion of an
initial net payment (or a subsequent net payment received during the Contract's
first fifteen days) allocated to a Sub-Account or to a Guarantee Period Account
will be invested as requested and will not be held in the Money Market Portfolio
for the Contract's first fifteen days. As such, the second and third sentences
of the fourth paragraph under "A. PAYMENTS" are deleted.
Supplement dated July 9, 1997
