An excerpt of this work appeared, in a slightly different form, in the first issue of Black Clock magazine.

Copyright © 2005 Bruce Bauman

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Bauman, Bruce
  And the word was / by Bruce Bauman.
      p. cm
  eISBN: 978-1-59051-433-7
  1. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 2. Murder victims’ families—
Fiction. 3. Jewish philosophers–Fiction. 4. Americans–India–Fiction. 5. Loss
(Psychology)–Fiction. 6. Separated people–Fiction. 7. Sons-Death–Fiction.
8. Physicians–Fiction. 9. India–Fiction. I. Title.
  PS3602.A955A84 2005
  813′.6–dc22

2004013623

Publisher’s Note:

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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