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First published by W.W. Norton & Company 1996

Andrea Barrett asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

These stories are works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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