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Acknowledgments

Conversation has always been my magic elixir, the substance that brings moments of emotional and conceptual clarity to the otherwise inchoate mass of feelings and thoughts I so often carry inside me. And since writing is, at its core, about trying to capture such epiphanies, this book owes its existence to those friends who, in the spirit of love, companionship, or at times I suspect, mere forbearance, have helped me to “knead the dough” over and again during our many encounters. To all of you (and you know who you are!), I am very, very grateful.

I’d like to give special thanks to a number of people in this group. I am very grateful that Jim Barrett, true friend, incandescent spirit and wordsmith extraordinaire, encouraged me to make my private musings on American culture available to a larger audience and that, further down the road, Carme Manuel was willing and able to help turn Jim’s vision into a reality.

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