Deepest thanks to Richard Parks, Katie Freeman, Toni Scott, Denise Hamilton, Holly Robinson, Marisa Silver, Stewart O’Nan, Nicole Vines, Tanya Jones, John Sims and Robert Sims and Loretta Preston, Teri Andrews and Karen Lark, all our Sims family; Revia Chandler and the Aubert family; Jay Neugeboren, Mike Davis, and Monique Verdin; and Rickerby and Paulette Hinds, and the Buckworld One crew.
Mes trois filles: Gaila, Delphine, and Rosette Sims.
Grateful appreciation to the Lannan Foundation and to the people I met in Louisiana.