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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. Permissions Acknowledgments
  44. Also by Wendy Wasserstein
  45. Copyright Page

Frankie cut the regulation identification bracelet the child had worn since birth. “Now he’s officially free.”

Frankie watched as the couple brought the child to a waiting car. She couldn’t help but see hope in a life beginning. Frankie pushed open the hospital door and walked out to the snowy street.

Permissions Acknowledgments

Permissions Acknowledgments

Alfred Publishing Co. and Bronx Soul Music Inc.: Excerpt from the song lyric “Runaround Sue” by Dion Di Mucci and Ernest Maresca. Copyright © 1961 (Renewed) by Mijac Music and County Line Music. All rights on behalf of Mijac Music administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Publishing Corp. and Bronx Soul Music Inc.

Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. and Hal Leonard Corporation: Excerpt from the song lyric “Witchcraft,” music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. Copyright © 1957 by Morley Music Co. Copyright renewed and assigned by Morley Music Co. and Notable Music Co., Inc. All rights for Notable Music Co., Inc. administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. and Hal Leonard Corporation.

Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. and Williamson Music: Excerpt from the song lyric “There’s a Small Hotel,” words by Lorenz Hart and music by Richard Rodgers. Copyright © 1936 (Renewed) by Chappell & Co. and Williamson Music and WB Music Corp. Rights for extended renewal term in U.S. controlled by WB Music Corp. and Williamson Music. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. and Williamson Music.

Hal Leonard Corporation: Excerpt from the song lyric “You Can’t Hurry Love,” words and music by Edward Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland. Copyright © 1965, 1966 (Renewed 1993, 1994) by Jobete Music Co., Inc. All rights controlled and administered by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. on behalf of Stone Agate Music (a division of Jobete Music Co., Inc.). International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.

Scribner: Excerpt from “The Second Coming” from The Collected Works of W. B.Yeats, Volume 1: The Poems, Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright © 1924 by The Macmillan Company. Copyright renewed © 1952 by Bertha Georgie Yeats. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group.

Also by Wendy Wasserstein

Also by Wendy Wasserstein

Sloth

Shiksa Goddess (Or, How I Spent My Forties)

Bachelor Girls: A Collection of Essays

The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays

The Sisters Rosensweig

An American Daughter

Old Money

Pamela’s First Musical

Copyright Page

This is a Borzoi Book

Published by Alfred A. Knopf

Copyright © 2006 by The Estate of Wendy Wasserstein All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wasserstein, Wendy.