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Acknowledegments

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A huge thank you to my husband for constantly supporting my work. To my mother, for her keen eye on the many versions and revisions - this would be an entirely different process without you! To my beta readers, who read this work in its early form, with its metaphorical bloomers showing - your feedback is invaluable.

I would also like to thank the staff and clients of the CNIB St. John’s, in particular, Lynsey Soper, who has been a superstar in getting me contacts and connecting me with people who have made Kali’s experience in the early days of her diagnosis as realistic as I could manage. Thanks, as well, to Dr. Linda Magnusson and Dr. Teri Stuckless, for your medical advice. If anything in the story does not make sense medically, that is wholly based on my lack of attention to detail or failure to ask the right questions. Your help and generosity with your time has been a gift.

Finally, thank you to my readers. You’re the reason I do this. You give me the motivation to keep going when it feels too hard.