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For

My sons and daughter:

Marshall

Michael

Jack

Peter

Carolina

Critical reading friends, Ronald Damholt and Rebecca Swan, and son Michael

Alex Emma, whose life has inspired the character bearing his name

Herbert Ellis, Literary Editor

and, most of all, for Barbara, without whose encouragement and love

this story could never have been written.

Thanks to Aristotle for his remark concerning literary theory, “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” (“Poetics,” Part XXIV, Public domain), and to Jorge Borges, who said, “Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment—the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.” (“A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz,” in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998))