Acknowledgements

Thanks to my mom and dad, Ceci and Leo, who’ve always been incredibly supportive and loving, and have been a great example to me my whole life. To my great friend and big sister, Dianna, and her very cool kids, CR and Nadia. Thanks to Joe, Grace, Gwen, and Joe Jr. To Katie, Francois, Diane, and Darrell, who read this in manuscript and helped it and me a great deal. To my agent, Gary Morris, and my editor, Mike Shohl, who’ve both made this a better book than it was before they saw it. And thanks as well to all my friends who’ve helped me so much and who are, lucky for me, too numerous to list here. I’ll have the pleasure of thanking you all in person.