Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, Noises from the Attic, and What It Means to Be Haunted

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Excerpt from “To the Dead” from COLLECTED POEMS 1947–1980 by ALLEN GINSBERG. Copyright © 1984 by Allen Ginsberg.
Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nuzum, Eric.
Giving up the ghost: a story about friendship, 80s rock, a lost scrap of paper, and what it means to be haunted / Eric Nuzum.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-53468-2
1. Nuzum, Eric—Psychology. 2. Nuzum, Eric—Friends and associates.
3. Ghosts—Psychological aspects. I. Title.
BF1471.N89 2012
133.1092—dc23
[B]
2012006290

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