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In lieu of flowers, Ellen Lebow requests donations be made in Arlene Lebow’s memory to the ASPCA and the Cullen Animal Sanctuary in Hudson, N.Y.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you:
Seth Fishman, Chuck Adams, and everyone at Algonquin
The MacDowell Colony, the Norman Mailer Center, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
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And, most of all, Desmond Jagmohan
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“There Was Earth Inside Them,” from Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan, translated by John Felstiner. Copyright © 2001 by John Felstiner. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Originally published in German by S. Fischer: Paul Celan, „Es war Erde in ihnen,” in Paul Celan, Die Niemandsrose. Copyright © 1963 S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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