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Authors: Meryl Sawyer

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This book is dedicated to Dave Wellsand to my close friends, Pamela and Ricki.Where would I be without your friendship?A special thank-you alsoto the real Keith Brooks Smithfor his humor and his inspiration.

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The best way to love anything is as if it might be lost.

—G. K. Chesterton

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