title: When Dreams Come True: A Love Story Only God Could Write
author:  Eric Ludy 
description: <b>Eric Ludy</b><br /><br />As full-time speakers, writers, and musicians, Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge and encourage young adults and singles around the world to pursue holiness in every aspect of their lives. The Ludys live in Windsor, Colorado.<br /><br /><b>Leslie Ludy</b><br /><br />As full-time speakers, writers, and musicians, Eric and Leslie Ludy challenge and encourage young adults and singles around the world to pursue holiness in every aspect of their lives. The Ludys live in Windsor, Colorado.
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  REQUIEM FOR A DREAM  
  A
  
  
  NOVEL BY  
  HUBERT SELBY, JR.
  
  
  
  
  
  THUNDER'S MOUTH PRESS  
  NEW YORK
  
  
  
  
  
  _This book is dedicated, with_
  
  
    
  _love, to Bobby, who has found_  
  _the
  
  
  only pound of pure--_  
  _Faith in a Loving
  
  
  God._  
  
  
  
  
  
  Preface © 2000 by Hubert Selby, Jr.  
  Foreword ©
  
  
  2000 by Darren Aronofsky  
  Foreword © 1988 by Richard Price
  
  
    
  Copyright © 1978, 1988 by Hubert Selby, Jr.  
  All rights
  
  
  reserved  
  Published in the United States by Thunder's Mouth Press
  
  
    
  An Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group Incorporated  
  161
  
  
  William Street, 16th Floor  
  New York, NY 10038  
  Grateful
  
  
  acknowledgment is made to the New York State Council on the Arts and
  
  
    
  the National Endowment for the Arts for financial assistance with
  
  
  the publication of this work.  
  Library of Congress
  
  
  Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  Selby, Hubert.  
  Requiem for a
  
  
  Dream: a novel ' by Hubert Selby, Jr.  
  p. cm.  
  ISBN
  
  
  1-56025-248-0
  
  
    
  
  
  FOREWORD
  
  
  When I was in high 