To my dad, who survived and got a second chance; to my mom and Dad #2, who carried me in both hands through the hardest year of my life.

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And in loving memory of my Uncle Andy, my Oupa, and my Ouma.

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here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

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i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) - E.E Cummings