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S H O R T   F I C T I O N S T A R R I N G   O R M E N T I O N I N G D A V I D   G E R G E N . - - - - I Touched Her Hand by Felix Muhl (added 09/27/02) Thing You May Not Know About Gergen by Michael Genrich (added 09/27/02) My Internship By Matthew Summers-Sparks (added 02/09/01) Telemachus, from James Joyce's "Ulysses" (Starring David Gergen and Bert Convy) Adapted By Daniel Davis (added 02/09/01) Interview With David Gergen By Sean Carrie (added 02/09/01) Punditry Slam By Jason Grote A Grateful Nation Pays Homage to Gergen By Sean Carman Some Punchlines to Jokes About David Gergen By Jas VanBuskirk David Gergen Imposter in the East Village By Tristan Ashby Waiting for Gergen By David Rossmann Growing up Near Gergen By David Rossmann Gergen's Going to Find Out By Peter O'Toole David Gergen Avoids Common Words By Darien Large 13 Ways of Looking At Gergen By Simon Wood On This Day in Gergen Family History By Paul Maliszewski A Short Story About David Gergen Using Only Words That Can Be Spelled With the Letters in "David Gergen" By Francis Heaney David Gergen Was My Lover By Sean Carman I Haven't Seen Gergen in a Couple of Weeks By Steve Featherstone A Letter of Reference I Wrote for David Gergen By Jude Walsh The Gergiad: A Limerick Cycle By Kevin Shay David Gergen Dances to Save the World By Mary Gallagher David Gergen's Face: What Is It Made Of? By Lucy Thomas Dear David Gergen By Joe Sayers Four Dreams of Gergen By Paul Maliszewski

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