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“Best Friends” was originally published in the August 2009 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine as “Two in a Million.”
“The F Word” was originally published in the October 2012 issue of Allure magazine.
“Mean Girls in the Retirement Home” was originally published in January 2015 in The New York Times.
“To Lucy and Phoebe” was originally published in the May 2015 issue of Time magazine as “You Are So Much More Than Your Looks.”
“Nanna’s Gefilte Fish” used with permission of Philadelphia Inquirer copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.
“I Go Back to May 1937” from THE GOLD CELL by Sharon Olds, copyright © 1987 by Sharon Olds. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Penguin Random House LLC for permission.
The lines from “Diving into the Wreck.” Copyright © 2016 by The Adrienne Rich Literary Trust. Copyright © 1973 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., from COLLECTED POEMS 1950–2012 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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