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Authors: Fred G. Leebron
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“What is it, Daddy?” Max asked, his face tight against Martin's shoulder.
“Nothing,” he said.
“Is it beautiful?”
“I don't know,” he said, as they began to cross the street. But he kept glancing back at the sky. “Maybe you should look and see?”
She was gone, oh god she was gone. These had been years that death was everywhere, that he woke every morning and could not escape it, that he kept feeling he was missing everybody, that he had to keep living, that death descended, that it hadn't yet arrived. These were years that death was everywhere. He had never wanted them to end.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many, many thanks to Amanda Urban and Jen Charat for their wonderful guidance and complete support and encouragement. I'm also grateful to Steve Rinehart, J. D. Dolan, Peter Ho Davies, Andrew Levy, André Bernard, and the incomparable Don Lee for their diligence, wisdom, and generosity. Thanks as well to Lynne Raughley, Barry Wolfman, Janet Rollings, Elizabeth Lambert, Christopher Fee, and Ian Clarke for their help and to lerance.
For support during the writing of this book, thanks to the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Gettysburg College.
I am most grateful to Kathryn Rhett, for her editorial expertise, patience, and kindness.
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