<link href="200188d1c01.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/x-oeb1-css"/><link href="template.xpgt" rel="stylesheet" type="application/adobe-page-template+xml"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:c7bdfec1-1d61-4d26-9534-66ce62dfbdf3" name="Adept.expected.resource"/></head><body><div class="body"><div class="chapter" id="chap_epub_id6"><a id="epub6"/> <a id="page_viii"/><a id="p200188d1109viii0001"/> <p class="firstpara"><i>Author’s Note</i><br/> </p> <p class="para">This is a work of biographical fiction. All of the epigraphs, letters, and journal entries in italics—except the two letters in chapter 36—are authentic, as is some of Søren Kierkegaard’s dialogue.</p> <p class="para">Regine Olsen told her side of the story to several people who recorded it in the second and third person. In the epigraphs, I have taken the liberty of returning her words to the first person.</p> <p class="para">The portrait of Regine Olsen on the front cover was painted by Emil Baerentzen in 1840. It now hangs in the Copenhagen ByMuseum. </p> </div></div></body></html>