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Winter 1987 • Vol. IX No. 1 • Fiction |

The Inheritance

By Don Zacharia

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Don Zacharia’s personal essay, “My Legacy,” which appeared in the Kenyon Review won a Pushcart Prize. Simon and Schuster published his novel, The Match Trick in 1982.

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My Legacy

By Don Zacharia

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