This book is dedicated with love to my mother (than whom I could not have chosen a better, had it been mine to choose) because Two has always been her favorite character in the story. My mother’s children have always been her favorite characters in their lives, and between her and my daddy they raised all six of us with astounding tolerance and grace.
Acknowledgment
I would like to gratefully acknowledge a “random act of kindness” committed by a gentleman on a plane last October who, when we arrived at SeaTac Airport, chased me half the length of the concourse to bring me my manuscript book, which I’d been writing in during the flight and had left on the seat. There were forty pages of manuscript that I hadn’t typed up in that book, and if it hadn’t been for him I would have lost it all. Thank you again, sir, and may your tribe increase.
Special thanks to my cousin Lori York for her assistance in preparing the OCR scan of this document for publication. Any remaining errors are mine and mine alone!