Dirt (20 page)

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Credits

Cover design by Richard Ljoenes

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Copyright

This novel is a work of fiction. Any
references to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are
intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity, and are
used fictitiously. All other names, characters, and places, and all dialogue and
incidents portrayed in this book, are the product of the author's
imagination.

DIRT
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to reproduce from the following: “On Children” from
The
Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran. Copyright © 1923 by Kahlil Gibran and
renewed 1951 by Administrators C.T.A. of Kahlil Gibran Estate and Mary G.
Gibran. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House,
Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
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ISBN 978-0-06-212103-5

Epub Edition © MAY 2012 ISBN:
9780062121080

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