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“Foreword” adapted from the essay “Novelist Meg Wolitzer on 20 Years of The Moth” originally published in Newsweek magazine on June 16, 2017; “What I Wore to My Divorce” from Approval Junkie by Faith Salie, copyright © 2016 by Salient Productions, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Random House LLC; “Have You Met Him Yet?” from Thanks, Obama by David Litt, copyright © 2017 by David Litt. Reprinted by courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers; “Seven Shades of Blue,” by Beth Nielson Chapman © 1995, 1997 BNC Songs (ASCAP). All rights reserved; “Thank You for Being a Friend,” words and music by Andrew Gold, copyright © 1978 Luckyu Music. All rights administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard LLC; “I Dreamed a Dream,” from Les Miserables, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; lyrics by Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel and Herbert Kretzmer. Music and French lyrics copyright © 1980 by Editions Musicales Alain Boublil. English lyrics copyright © 1986 by Alain Boublil Music Ltd. (ASCAP). Mechanical and publication rights for the USA administered by Alain Boublil Music Ltd. (ASCAP) c/o Spielman Koenigsberg & Parker LLP; Richard Koenigsberg. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. This music is copyright. Photocopying is illegal. All performance rights restricted. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard LLC.

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