How Beautiful the Ordinary

by Michael Cart

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  “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You.” Words and music by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, © 1967 (renewed 1995) EMI LONGITUDE MUSIC and SEASONS FOUR MUSIC. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Used with permission.

  HOW BEAUTIFUL THE ORDINARY: Twelve Stories of Identity. “A Word from the Nearly Distant Past” copyright © 2009 by David Levithan “Happily Ever After” copyright © 2009 by Eric Shanower. “My Life as a Dog” copyright © 2009 by Ron Koertge. “Trev” copyright © 2009 by Jacqueline Woodson. “My Virtual World” copyright © 2009 by Francesca Lia Block. “A Dark Red Love Knot” copyright © 2009 by Margo Lanagan. “Fingernail” copyright © 2009 by William Sleator. “Dyke March” copyright © 2009 by Ariel Schrag. “The Missing Person” copyright © 2009 by Jennifer Finney Boylan. “First Time” copyright © 2009 by Julie Ann Peters. “Dear Lang” copyright © 2009 by Emma Donoghue. “The Silk Road Runs through Tupperneck, N.H.” copyright © 2009 by Gregory Maguire. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Adobe Digital Edition September 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-194965-4

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