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      Arabic text copyright © by Alexandra Chreiteh 2009, 2012

      English translation copyright © by Michelle Hartman 2012

      Swallow Editions symbol copyright © Root Leeb, 2011

      Originally published in Arabic by Arab Scientific Publishers,

      Beirut, Lebanon, 2009

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Chreiteh, Alexandra.

      [Da’iman Coca-Cola. English.]

      Always Coca-Cola / by Alexandra Chreiteh ; translated by Michelle Hartman.

      -- 1st American ed.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 978-1-56656-843-2 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-56656-873-9 (hardcover)

      1. Young women--Lebanon--Fiction. 2. Beirut (Lebanon)--Fiction. I. Hartman, Michelle. II. Title.

      PJ7918.H74D3513 2011

      892.7’36--dc23

      2011024050

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