Authors: Amy Stuart

Still Mine (31 page)

To Ian, with all my heart, for pretty much everything all the time, for his love and conviction, for his steadfast good nature, for his heroic efforts in carving out space and time for me to write. Much love to our boys, Flynn, Joey, and Leo, for offering in their joyful wildness a strong antidote to the solitude of writing, for their hilarious questions and their vivid stories, and for keeping me in line with their great enthusiasm for the little things in life.

To Susan Stuart, the reader I always kept in mind as I wrote. I am forever grateful to her, and for her.

AMY STUART
won the 2011 Writers’ Union of Canada Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers and was a finalist for the 2012 Vanderbilt/Exile Award. She is a recent master’s graduate from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Toronto with her husband and three sons. Visit her at
amystuart.ca
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Still mine / Amy Stuart.

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