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First published by Viking Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus
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“Gina DeJesus’ disappearance has changed her neighborhood” by Ariel Castro, Plain Press (Cleveland), June 2004. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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ISBN 978-0-698-17895-3
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