<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:be25f34d-e319-4adb-9d67-387d30086d35" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><hr/> <p class="center"><em>A Mariner Book</em><br/> Houghton Mifflin Company<br/> <span style="font-size: smaller">BOSTON • NEW YORK</span></p> <hr/> <p class="center">First Mariner Books edition 2008<a id="pvi"/> </p> <p class="center">Copyright © 2007 by Michael Lowenthal</p> <p class="center"><span style="font-size: smaller">ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</span></p> <p class="center">For information about permission to reproduce selections<br/> from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company,<br/> 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.</p> <p class="center"><a href="http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com">www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com</a></p> <p class="center"><em>Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data</em><br/> Lowenthal, Michael.<br/> Charity girl / Michael Lowenthal.<br/> p. cm.<br/> ISBN-13: 978-0-618-54629-9<br/> ISBN-10: 0-618-54629-4<br/> 1. Sexually transmitted diseases—Patients—United States—Fiction.<br/> 2. Women patients—United States—Fiction. 3. Sexually transmitted<br/> diseases—Government policy—United States—Fiction. 4. Sexually<br/> transmitted diseases—United States—History—Fiction.<br/> I. Title.<br/> PS3562.O894C47 2007<br/> 813'.54—dc22 2005037775</p> <p class="center">ISBN-13: 978-0-618-91978-9 (pbk.)<br/> ISBN-10: 0-618-91978-3 (pbk.)</p> <p class="center"><em>Book design by Melissa Lotfy</em></p> <p class="center"><span style="font-size: smaller">PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</span></p> <p class="center"><span style="font-size: smaller">VB</span> 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1</p> <hr/> <blockquote> <p class="center"><em>For my mother,</em><br/> <em>Janet Wyzanski Lowenthal</em><a id="pvii"/> </p> </blockquote> <hr/> <p class="left">Charity causes half the suffering she relieves, but she cannot relieve half the suffering she has caused.<a id="pviii"/> </p> <p class="left">—<em>The General Need for Education in Matters of Sex,</em> published by the Chicago Society of Social Hygiene, circa 1907</p> </body> </html>