<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:96c4173b-6ef4-44b6-a563-2f23e8d17229" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="center"><a id="p1"/> This is a work of nonfiction, a true account of my experiences as I remember them. However, I have changed some names, places, and identifying characteristics in order to protect the privacy of various individuals.</p> <p class="center">Copyright © 2012 by Luisita López Torregrosa</p> <p class="center">All rights reserved</p> <p class="center">For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.</p> <p class="center"><a href="http://www.hmhbooks.com">www.hmhbooks.com</a></p> <p class="center"><em>Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data</em><br/> Torregrosa, Luisita López.</p> <p class="center">Before the rain : a memoir of love and revolution / Luisita López Torregrosa.<br/> p. cm.<br/> ISBN 978-0-547-66920-5<br/> 1. Torregrosa, Luisita López. 2. Journalists—United States—Biography. 3. Philippines—History—Revolution, 1986—Personal narratives, American I. Title.<br/> <span style="font-size: smaller">PN</span>4874.<span style="font-size: smaller">T</span>6246<span style="font-size: smaller">A</span>3 2012 070.92—dc23<br/> [B] 2011037314</p> <p class="center">Book design by Melissa Lotfy</p> <p class="center">Printed in the United States of America</p> <p class="center"><span style="font-size: smaller">DOC</span> 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1</p> <p class="center">Lines from “Vixen” from <em>The Vixen</em> by W. S. Merwin, copyright © 1995 by W. S. Merwin. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.</p> </body> </html>