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Sally Cafarelli (1915-1986) is my wife’s late mother. Sally said she worried double to make up for my refusal to worry at all. Who knows? Maybe it helped.

Gerald Light (1919-2004) was my first boss in advertising. Gerry taught me a lot about the ad business. After the SOB fired me, I used what he taught me, to take business away from him. Fuck him—and the horse he rode in on.

Dave Evans is a friend and former housemate and business partner. He shared some of the great college-era adventures. I still use the hair brush Dave left behind when he graduated from Lehigh and moved out of our house over 40 years ago. I don’t need to use the brush as much as I did back then, and it will probably outlast me.

Skip Foti is my wife’s cousin, a kindred spirit, and my occasional dance partner whom I didn’t meet until after the great adventures. If I knew him back then, Skip would definitely have been part of the fun. We might even have shared a jail cell.

Ralph “The Navigator” Romaniello spent some long nights strapped into in the right seat of my 1974 Fiat during sports car rallies. Ralph kept us heading in the right direction—most of the time.

Christy Pinheiro is an online buddy and fellow writer. We critique each other’s books. She made some excellent suggestions for this one. Christy said that something I wrote was so funny that she burned her breakfast while laughing. That’s a lot better than puking because of something I wrote.

The beginning of the Baby Boom and the fabulous Hillhouse High School Class of 1964, “the last great class.” The guys: best buddies Howie Shrobe and Marty Kravitt, fellow Foofum Kevin McKeown, fellow Finster Barry Tenin, unindicted co-conspirator Alan Disler, honorary Jew Billy Priestly, world-class wit Harry Whitney, Grand Fenwicker Alan Melnick, dead fish depositor Howie Krosnick, neighbor from across the swamp Ed Cohen, ultra-creative writer Mike Baldinger, favorite phantoms Steve Schmuck and John Quimby. Girl friends (but not girlfriends): Janet Braverman, Phyllis Caplow, Carol Cherkis, Linda Howard, Annie Iwanciwsky, Cynthia Lynes, Marilyn Grant, Patty Miller, Rocky Myers, Illeine Saslafsky, Carrie Setlow, Marilyn Winokur. They made the bad times feel better, even decades later.