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<CONFORMED-NAME>WASHINGTON MUTUAL INC
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<STATE-OF-INCORPORATION>WA
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<CONFORMED-NAME>LONGBRAKE WILLIAM A
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		<footnote id="F1">The amount of securities beneficially owned includes first, second, third and fourth quarter 2003 dividends as well as a second quarter purchase in the Washington Mutual, Inc. (WM) Amended and Restated Employee Stock Purchase Plan.</footnote>
		<footnote id="F2">In the future, the reporting person will no longer reflect the number of shares held by the family charitable foundation as the shares are held independently by a family foundation that is a 501(c)(3) charitable trust.</footnote>
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	<remarks>The reporting person no longer has a reportable beneficial interest in 15,519 shares of WM common stock owned by his daughter nor in 2,277 shares held in trust for his daughter and included in the reporting person's prior ownership reports.
	</remarks>
	<ownerSignature>
		<signatureName>/s/ Longbrake, William A.</signatureName>
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