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Copyright © 1987 by Judith Viorst
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the original hardcover edition as follows: Viorst, Judith.
When did I stop being twenty and other injustices.
I. Title.
PS3572.I6W5 1987 811'.54 87-12778
ISBN 0-671-64328-2
ISBN-13: 978- 1-4165-4866-9
ISBN-10: 1-4165-4866-1
eISBN: 978-1-4391-4203-5
Greatful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following:
Poems from How Did I Get to Be 40 and Other Atrocities by Judith Viorst, copyright © 1973, 1974, 1976 by Judith Viorst. By permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Poems from People and Other Aggravations by Judith Viorst, copyright © 1969, 1970, 1971, by Judith Viorst.
Poems from It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life by Judith Viorst, copyright © 1968 by Judith Viorst.
Poems from The Village Square by Judith Viorst, copyright © 1965, 1966 by Judith Viorst.