I haven’t done an acknowledgment page for a long time. Basically that is because I live in the world of the famous, and when I mention my celebrated friends, uninformed, bitter people accuse me of being a name-dropper. Well, I’m here to tell you that I am not a name-dropper, and LeBron and Barack would be the first to tell you that.
In any event, that all ends now. I have received tremendous emotional support from many people as I have climbed to the peak of the literary world, and they deserve mention, whether the jealous among us like it or not. So a sincere thank-you to:
Beyoncé; Willie Mays; Willy Loman; Grace and Machine Gun Kelly; Tom Brady; Jan Brady; Marcia Marcia Marcia Brady; the Lee siblings, Bruce, Peggy and Robert E.; Leo DiCaprio; Leo Durocher; Kelley Ragland; Arthur and Sienna Miller; Richard Kimble; Cosmo Kramer; Cosmo Politan; Ben, Paul, and Colonel Hogan; Scott Ryder; Bruno Tattaglia; Vin Scully; My Cousin Vinny; Robin Rue; Bette, Sammy, and Jefferson Davis; Bradley Cooper; Bill Bradley; Bill Parcells; Elizabeth and Opie Taylor; Madeline Houpt; Jeff Bezos; Jeff Daniels; Stormy Daniels; Beth Miller; D. H. and Jennifer Lawrence; Marie Barone; Latka Gravas; Doug Burns; Ken Burns; Third Degree Burns; Rosalynn and Hurricane Carter; Hillary Strackbein; Alex Trebek; Sylvia Schnauser; Joan Crawford; Rita, Mookie, and Woodrow Wilson; Frank Pentangeli; Debbie Myers; Atticus Finch; Jim and Open Carrey; Eli Manning; and Tom and Tape Delay.