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the state of affairs. Copyright © 2017 by Esther Perel. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Lyrics from “The Polyamory Song” reprinted with permission from David Rovics.

Excerpt from Monogamy by Adam Phillips, copyright © 1996 by Adam Phillips. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Excerpt from “You All Know the Story of the Other Woman” from The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton. Reprinted with permission by Linda Gray Sexton. Copyright by Linda Gray Sexton.

Cover design and photograph by Adalis Martinez

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

Digital Edition OCTOBER 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-232260-9

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-232258-6