Dedication

Thanks to my friends and fans for the use of their names: Ruthie Tweter Hasselblad, Donna Gilbert Kimpel, Sheila Snowden, and Gracie Louise Yost. They are all lovely ladies; I borrowed their names—any character flaws are of my own creation.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
2 CORINTHIANS 1:12