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

The author and the publisher wish to express their grateful acknowledgement to the following periodicals in which these stories first appeared: “Magna as a Child” and “Only the Cat Escapes” in South Carolina Review; “Cooked Goose” in Florida Review and Grub Street; “Friends” in Fiction International; “Magna as the Good Woman” in Chouteau Review; “pp. 201-204” in Asylum; “Training to Magna” in Telescope; “Finished” in Poet & Critic; “Magna Out of Earshot” in Corona; “Will the Writer” in Other Voices.

Copyright © 1990 Friends: More Will and Magna Stories by Stephen Dixon

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