Rise the Dark (35 page)

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Copyright © 2016 by Michael Koryta
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The passage
here
is from
Neither Wolf Nor Dog
by Kent Nerburn, copyright © 1994.

ISBN 978-0-316-29382-2

E3-20160607-DA-PC