The Wrong Stuff (25 page)

Thank you to my family—my husband, Steve, my first and best reader, and our children, Kate, Nora, and Rob, who provide witty commentary as well as the patience necessary for having writer parents. To the following, my sincere thanks for wonderful friendship as well as various forms of expertise: Judy Groothuis, Dr. Dennis Groothuis, Chuck Shotwell, Lynn Shotwell, Cas Rooney, Lauren Paulson, Michael Swartz, and Sheldon Zenner. Thanks to Gail Hochman for being a writer's best friend. Thanks to Kelley Ragland and Ben Sevier at St. Martin's for asking all the right questions (providing more than a few answers, too), my copy editor, Marcy Hargan, and thank you, Anne Twomey, for designing such knockout covers.

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Two authentic Brewster chairs with excellent provenances are known to exist. The chair built by Armand LaMontagne is still owned by the Henry Ford Museum and is often loaned to other museums for exhibits on fakes and forgeries. There are no known Westman Sunflower Chests; however, I suggest we all keep our eyes open.