40 Days of Dating

THANK YOU

We can’t thank those who made this book possible without first thanking everyone who helped us carry out the experiment and the website.

Our eternal gratefulness goes to all eighty of the illustrators who helped bring the website to life. A huge thank you to Eric Jacobsen for his tireless work building a magnificent site (and for putting up with our design snobbery).

Our deepest gratitude goes to Santiago Carrasquilla and Joe Hollier for shooting and editing lovely videos.

We’re grateful to Deborah Aaronson, Andrea Danese, Anna Oseran, Emily Albarillo, True Sims, Danny Maloney, and the entire Abrams family for publishing our book.

Thank you to the always precise Kevin Brainard, Jason Nuttall, and Raul Aguila for designing one hell of a book.

Also to Esther Li, Jordan Shevell, and Rikke Elverdam for all their help. We’re additionally thankful to Bo (RL Fahs) for catching our grammar and spelling mistakes along the way. Huge thanks to our therapist during the experiment, Jocelyn Charnas, for taking on a couple of crazies like us and for contributing to this book.

We’re very thankful to all the wonderful people we met along this journey, who showed interest in our project, and who gave us great advice, including: Ray Javdan, Nancy Schuster, Sarah Schechter, Joy Gorman, Lorene Scafaria, Michael Sugar, Michael Suscy, Michael Costigan, Kristen Bell, Scott Stuber, Sophie Mas, Brian Grazer, Julia Brownell, Zooey Deschanel, Josh Schwartz, Reese Witherspoon, and Bruna Papandrea, as well as Cait Hoyt, Michelle Weiner, Matt Rosen, and Ryan Ly of CAA.

A huge thank you to our extremely talented and lovely friends who contributed stories: Erik Marinovich, Brian Collins, Laura Moses, Stefan Sagmeister, Julia Hoffmann, Esteban Apraez, Nicole Jacek, Noreen Morioka, Laura Danforth, Paula Chu, Lorene Scafaria, Zipeng Zhu, Rachel Shechtman, John Fulbrook, and Maayan Pearl. We’re honored to have you in our book.

Our hearts go out to all the fans who followed us and connected to our story, who reached out to us via email or through social networks, and who were inspired by our story to tackle their own fears and habits in relationships.

Also, a quick shout-out to Don and Cecilia Moorcroft for sharing their story with us—we were driven to tears. Finally, thanks to the many media outlets around the world that covered and shared our story.

I am forever grateful to my mom for always supporting me without judgment; to my wonderful grandparents for their constant inspiration; to Dave Suster for always being the father-figure; to my brothers, Zachary and Jeremy Goodman; to my “brother from another mother,”

Aaron Taylor; and to an amazing group of family, friends, and mentors—you know who you are.

Also, thank you to all the art teachers I had at Cuyahoga Community College and at the School of Visual Arts—your encouragement inspired me more than you know. I am additionally thankful to Sarah Walsh, for managing our email inbox (we literally would have died without you), and to Joe Walsh, for lending his suport and time when we were trying to make important business decisions. My sincere appreciation to Stefan Sagmeister for all his support of our project.

Lastly, my deepest gratitude goes to my friend and coconspirator, Jessie. What an insane journey we’ve been on; I’m truly honored to have you in my life.

First of all, a huge thank you to my family. Mom and Dad, thank you for your constant love and support of this (and every) endeavor. Mom, I love you with all my liver! Thanks for helping us manage our email inbox and press. Dad, thanks for your business advice and our AIM conversations. Lauren, thank you for always being a source of joy and humor; your free spirit and confidence are always an inspiration. Thank you, Zak, for all your love, support, and patience as you endured the publicity around this crazy project.

Stefan Sagmeister, I am eternally grateful for your support and contribution to the project. Watching you take risks in your own work and The Happy Film gave us the courage and inspiration we needed to launch our story in public.

Finally, thank you, Tim, for your honesty, support, and friendship. This was one of the craziest journeys I’ve ever been on—I couldn’t have done it with anyone else.