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This book and its characters have spent so many years (seven now) in my head and the manuscript has taken many forms. So many people along the way have helped shape it. Thank you to my family—Biliana, Nico, Michael, Jerel, Cora, and Jude—for your daily doses of inspiration. Thank you to early readers of this manuscript: Carol Davies, Susan Evans, Michael Sullivan, Corinne Gartner, Carly Leahy, Mary Earley (aka, Mom), Heather Outlaw (aka, bestie), Iudita Harlan, and Caroline Zimmerman. And thank you to that psychic in Sedona who told me that I should re-read Bid Time Return and that it would be an important influence on the final revision. Thank you to my ex-spouse and current friend, Lucy, who had my back during the years I spent conceiving and writing this story. And thank you for your maturity and forgiveness that allows us to harmoniously co-parent. Thanks, too, to my generous blurbers: Gina Frangello, Peter Nichols, Lily Hoang, and Gayle Brandeis.

Thank you ultimately and eternally to Aimee Bender, who judged this book the winner of the Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize. I am humbled and deeply honored.

Thank you to Kate Gale, Tobi Harper, Monica Fernandez, Natasha McClellan, and the rest of the team at Red Hen Press for your hard work and dedication.

Thank you to Rosalie Morales Kearns for being a kick-ass publicist and all-around coach for the business side of writing.

Many unending thanks to Seth Fischer for being a brilliant editor. Thank you for being my secret sauce/ secret guru/ secret weapon who tears my shit up and helps me take it to the next level and then the next—to the level of just killing it.

And never least, thank you to the love of my life—my soul mate, my seal mate, my best friend—Biliana Angelova, for everything (every single thing).