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Simon & Schuster
Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1997 by Mary Gaitskill All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Gaitskill, Mary.Because they wanted to: stories/Mary Gaitskill.p. cm.I. Title.PS3557.A36B43 1997813’.54—dc21 96-46337CIP ISBN-13: 978-0-684-80856-7ISBN-10: 0-684-80856-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-684-84144-1 (Pbk) ISBN-10: 0-684-84144-4 (Pbk) ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-2797-1 (ebook) Some of these stories first appeared in slightly different form in the following publications: The Threepenny Review (“Tiny, Smiling Daddy”), Elle (“The Blanket”), Fourteen Hills (“Comfort”), Mirabella (“The Girl on the Plane”), Esquire (“Kiss and Tell”), and The New Yorker (“Turgor”).
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