My mother continues to be the best person on earth. She also continues to have absolutely no idea how funny she is.
If I have learned anything, it’s that things don’t work out the way you expect them to.
But sometimes they work out better. And your most important relationship is with yourself. And that hope, my friends, is a verb.
Acknowledgments
For a multitude of reasons, this truly would not have been possible without the following people. I am forever indebted: Doug Stewart, Denise Oswald, Cal Morgan, Carrie Kania, Jeanette Perez, Paula Cooper, Ken Siman, Kat Mattis, Stephanie Bonadio, Beth Silfin, and last but most certainly not least, Mia Tramz.
It’s always nice to have a team of professionals at one’s disposal. Thank you for helping me look and sound my very best: Mark Seliger, James Victore, Michael Angelo, Eli Evans, Ruth Levy, Rita Nakouzi, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Jonathan Ames.
Were it not for all of you, I would have nothing to say: Kevin Greer, Ilana Arazie, Mark and Lisa Aschenbrand, Lori Barzvi, Adi and Ofer Miara, Roy and Merav Ron, Talma and Yochanan Ron, Sara and Dennis Belfor.
Behind the scenes, you guys really make it happen: Itay Koren, Ed Murphy, Jason Park, and James Gormley.
Honorable mention, thank you for your undying love and support: Vanessa Hamilton, Poppy King, Jenny Shimizu, Erica Medine, Mari Fujita, Eran Shakine, Stephanie Donahue, Jason Aschenbrand, Brette and Evan Aschenbrand, Camille Killian, Caroline Gates, and the one and only Herbert Lust.
My apologies and undying love: my parents, Eve and Michael Aschenbrand.
In Memory of
Guy Barzvi
(02/23/72 – 9/11/01)
&
My grandparents
Chana and Yerachmiel Wirnik
Lillian and Seymour Aschenbrand
About the Author
PERIEL ASCHENBRAND is the author of the critically acclaimed book The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own. Heralded as a “provocateur” by the New York Times and “feisty, foxy, and smart” by Paper magazine, Aschenbrand has become a true modernday voice for her generation. She lives in New York City.
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Credits
Title art by James Victore
Cover photograph by Mark Seliger
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