Thanks to my wonderful editor Jane Rosenman, to my agents and friends Esther Newberg and Heather Schroeder, to my assistant and pal Jane DeVries, and to those dear friends from long ago who lived the fast, wild life down “The Hole” in wild old Baltimore: Richard, Jack, Scott, Sam, Ned, Mark, Kathy, and the two we all loved the most, now spirits but still alive in our hearts, Jesse Rossman and Michael Thomas.