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© 1993, 2003 by Patricia Powell

Introduction © 2003 by Beacon Press

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First published by Heinemann Educational Publishers in 1993.

Text design and composition by Daniel Barks
Cover art and design by Louis Roe

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Me dying trial / Patricia Powell.

p. cm. — (Celebrating Black Women Writers)

ISBN 978-0-8070-1972-6 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-8070-1981-8 (ebook)

1. AIDS (Disease)—Patients—Fiction. 2. Gay men—Fiction. 3. Jamaica—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series.

PR9265.9.P68M4 2003

813’54—dc22 2003057942