Acknowledgments

Both of us would like to say thank you to Jacob Brenner, who spent a summer helping us do much of the research behind this book. Additionally, we would like to thank the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and the Division of Children’s Health Services Research, as well as Riley Hospital for Children for their support. We are so appreciative of our agents, Sheree Bykofsky and Janet Rosen, as well as our editor, Alyse Diamond, who is also our go-to person for lunch when we are lucky enough to head to New York City.

Aaron would additionally like to thank his family and friends for their unending love and support. He is especially grateful for Jacob, who makes him think, Noah, who makes him laugh, and Sydney, who always holds his hand. He still marvels that he is married to Aimee, whom he loves madly, and who tolerates him better than anyone else in the world.

Rachel thanks Joe Fick, who takes good care of all living things in his sphere, including her. She also gives thanks to her wonderful family. Tom and Jacki Vreeman are not responsible for her desire to debunk parental wisdom except in that they raised a well-educated, independent thinker, and for this Rachel thanks them especially. Rachel appreciates her cheering section on both sides of the ocean, with special thanks to her favorite women (especially Elizabeth, Maria, Jessica, Lorrie, and Jessica), the Vreeman tribe, the Fountain Square Supper Club, and the I.U. Kenya team. Rachel also acknowledges that Aaron is almost always right.