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These stories originally appeared in slightly different form in the following magazines:
“The Subversive Divorce,” Confrontation
“So You’re Going to Have a New Body!,” Mother Jones
“The Two Portraits of Rembrandt,” Moment
“The Last Frontier,” Witness
“Killing the Bees,” Tikkun
“What I Did for Love,” Prairie Schooner
“The Sound of Velcro,” Fiction Network
“The Painters,” Other Voices
“The Thousand Islands,” North American Review
“The Infidel,” Michigan Quarterly Review
Last stanza from “Advice for Good Love” in Love Poems by Yehuda Amichai, Copyright © 1979 by Yehuda Amichai. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
copyright © 1987 by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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