Thank you to everyone who came along on this journey, which took so much longer than I dreamed and went to places I never anticipated. Special thanks to Sara, for making me rewrite chapter twenty until it worked, and to Rene, for giving me the courage to go where the story led. I have waited fifteen years to write that line about the second apple, and now that it is done, i find myself missing Christopher and Karl and the families they have built. But their future stretches out beyond mortal imagining, and mine lies here with all of you.