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Many people helped this book come into being. I am deeply grateful to my editor, Ulrike Guthrie, for alternately prodding and massaging my muse, sometimes through the use of painting metaphors. Thank you to Dr. Ron Baard for supporting the dream, to Dr. David Trobisch for hanging on just long enough to see the manuscript breathe on its own, and to Dr. Ann Johnston for giving body to the book’s spirit in the form of meetings and guidance during a busy time. I am grateful to my initial readers, the Rev. Dr. Gordon and Mrs. Marietta Andersen, who were so encouraging. Also, I am grateful to my sister, professor and poet Jean Greenwood, who has been editing my work since I was eight years old when we played “school” next to the train tracks in England. I appreciate that you didn’t use red ink this time. I am grateful to Mona Jerome of Ever After Mustang Rescue, whose generous heart and seemingly tireless body care for so many horses in need. Thanks to Kris Firth for her precision, and to Christian Amondson and all the professionals at Wipf and Stock who have been so helpful in the production of what was really the first novel.