Dedication
For Ed Hagstrom, who remembers Rule #1 as much as anybody
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Acknowledgments
Other eyes and other imaginations have helped me keep this book on a steady course. I am especially indebted to the suggestions from my writer’s workshop: thanks go to Lori Ann White, Gary Shockley, M. Coleman Easton, Clare Bell, Michael C. Berch, and Dan’l Danhy-Oakes—and Linda Searle takes full responsibility for the joke.
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