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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Acknowledgments and grateful thanks:

To my sister, Marjorie Larner, for discerning and encouraging manuscript review, and for a lifetime of sweet sisterhood.

To my brother, Bernard Larner, for his unique humor, sound advice, and staunch brothering.

To my father, Irvin Larner, for parenting of a superlative order, who helps me to persist in an inordinate number of ways.

For the texture of my days, thanks to Anna Harrington, Helen Londe, Ann Young, Judy and Phil Buchanan, Nancy MacDonald, Lea Earnheart, John O'Connor, Joanne Kyger, Mary Nisbet, Lynn Murray, Chris Weingarth, Kurtis Alexander, Meghan O'Hare, and Cabin Three, Christine Lisetti, the One? Three J Writing Group, Leslie Creed and Lloyd Kahn of Shelter Publications, Barbara Deutsch, Georgia Carmichael Connon, MegSimonds and Mark Butler, Kathleen O'Neill, Bob Levitt, and StuArt, for always asking.

To Dave Fross, for the saving grace of a seamless friendship and professional association, both essential. To Freeman House, for the inspiration of his work and his writing. To Jeffrey Creque, for prairie talk of the highest quality. To Craig Dremann, a fortuitous connection, replete with steadying good counsel

To my helpful agent, Andree Abecassis. To my excellent and painstaking editors at University of California Press, Doris Kretschmer, Dore Brown, and Peter Dreyer.

To Peter G. Smith, for years of all kinds of help, including a saintly patience in electronic matters. But mostly, for all that we have seen together.

To my daughter, Tarin Molly Patterson, cross-country girl, whose blithe and beautiful spirit has lighted and lightened my days these seventeen years.

To the memory of my mother, Sara Larner, who loved words, and of Gerda Isenberg, for the opportunity and the example.

And to my town. Home.