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Copyright © 2015 by Abigail Thomas
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-1-4767-8505-9
ISBN 978-1-4767-8507-3 (ebook)
The author is grateful to the editors of the following magazines for publishing, usually in different form, pieces of this book: O, The Oprah Magazine; Tin House; Sonora Review; Open City; Drunken Boat; and The Ocean State Review.