ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Bobby and Arleen’s novel is about hopes and dreams, the bet-it-all contracts that either propel you through the fire or burn you to death. If not for the backstage, to-the-bone candor of several remarkable individuals, the pages that follow couldn’t go where they go.

ON BEING AN ACTRESS
Anne Johns and Kaaren Ochoa

ON BEING THE POLICE
Denny “Ten-Inch” Banahan, Bobby Vargas, Jason Cowin, Bob Anderson, and Patti Black

THE THEATER
Kevin Nance

THE EDITORS (HARD, SOULLESS MEN WHO TORTURED INSECTS AS CHILDREN)
Easy Ed Stackler and Don McQuinn

THE READERS (COUSINS OF THE HARD, SOULLESS MEN WHO TORTURED INSECTS AS CHILDREN)
F1 & F2: Sharon & Doug Bennett, Brian Rodgers, Big Jean Viallet, Catriona Kennedy, and Billy Thompson

AND MY PAL
Bill Owens