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The Two Hotel Francforts
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The Indian Clerk
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For their contribution to the final shaping of these stories,
I would like to express my gratitude to Bobbie Bristol,
Mary D. Kierstead, and Andrew Wylie.
D.L.
Copyright © 1983, 1984 by David Leavitt
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“Territory” and “Out Here” originally appeared in slightly different form in The New
Yorker. “Counting Months” originally appeared in slightly different form in Harper’s
and in The O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories of 1984. “Radiation” originally appeared
in slightly different form in Prism under the title “In the Radiation Center.”
Family Dancing was first published by Knopf in 1984 and was included in
Collected Stories, published by Bloomsbury in 2003
This electronic edition published in June 2014
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