This book is dedicated to:
Wendy Lieberman, a very sweet and dear friend.
My favorite cousin, Dewey Earnest, and his mother, Beatrice.
Effie, my maternal grandmother, whom I never knew.
My good friends, Wendy Ettricks and Joanne Snitzer.
My mother-in-law, Joyce Bailey.
And my husband, the love of my life, Paul Bailey.
Thank you all for your help and your inspiration, in the past, in the present, and may the future be filled with all good things.