Hold Still
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To Tara Gallagher and Rebecca Taylor, fellow drowning girls.
To Willa Cmiel, for thinking fear is useless and absurd, for how very strong you are.
To Catherine Boshe, Buggy holder, other mother, second partner, the best listener, always a place that we can stay.
To Cheryl Fabrizio, teacher trainer, constant reader, Faulkner shower, long text sender, I’m proud of you too.
To Osvaldo Monzon and Mauricio Botero and Heidi Rich.
To Ricardo Lopez, Marisa Strong Baskin, and Kara Steger.
To Mimi Fry, for beach dates, such great mama conversations, for showing up and always bringing extra snacks.
To Shannon Carthy Curry, for walks and runs and mulberries.
To Emily Joanna Bender, dorm bed listener, first book sharer, best mom friend always, one of my favorite brains.
To Kayleen Rebecca Hartman, for all those years of almost everything.
To Alejandro Strong, for calling and talking, and walking and talking, and driving and talking. For the Trachtenbergs.
To Scott Steger, who always tries.
To Kenny Strong and Cristina de la Vega, who saved our lives a million times and stuck around and made us cake, who held our babies, took our trash out, made us dinner, hugged and listened, all those rich and lovely hours talking in the kitchen, who give our children so much love and care.
To Peter, who is steady, careful, confident, who is generous and kind, who is my favorite conversation, my favorite couch or walk or dinner partner, my most trusted teammate; who taught me love, who taught me fun, who gave me a whole world.
To Isabel and Luli, who taught me joy.
Hold Still is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Lynn Steger Strong
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