We would like to acknowledge many people who helped in the process of bringing this amazing story to life. Most of all we would like to thank our families for bearing with us through months and months of phone calls, conversations, writing, and the painstaking editing process to make sure that memories were checked and details were confirmed over and over again. We would especially like to acknowledge Lacy Lalene Lynch and Jan Miller from Dupree Miller agency for believing in this project and helping us steer this large, and sometimes unwieldy, ship into port. Thank you Georgina Levitt and Amanda Murray from Weinstein Books for helping us manage the process of funneling a massive amount of information into a consumable story. Special thanks to our editor Leslie Wells, and Kevin Leichter. And lastly, thank you to all of the people whom we interviewed over the past two years, and who shared their stories and their memories with us about Thomas Kinkade, who will not be named here, but to whom we are extremely grateful for their contributions.