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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copyright © Karin Slaughter 2018
Excerpt from The Silent Wife © Karin Slaughter 2020
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Lyrics from:
“Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” (written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio)
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Source ISBN: 9780008150853
Ebook Edition © August 2018 ISBN: 9780008150846
Version: 2020-08-03
For my GPP peeps
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you—Nobody—Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise—you know!
How dreary—to be—Somebody!
How public—like a Frog—
To tell one’s name—the livelong June—
To an admiring Bog!
—Emily Dickinson
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