Dedication

For Nana Vaz de Castro,

who created a movement.

It's probably a good thing

I can't get Bob’s Ovomaltine shakes

in the United States.

 

And also for Paul.

There's got to be some irony in the fact that

I wrote about a make-believe husband

while you were gone for three months

climbing Mount Everest.

But that mountain is real. And so are you.

And so are we.