Many thanks to my editor, Peter Joseph, for helping to pull the essentials from the morass my brain had become while I was working on this book. I cannot imagine a better editor than Peter. In fact, he’s so wonderful, I don’t even try.
Thoughts and good wishes—and thanks, of course—to my agent, Amy Moore-Benson. May all your dreams, your heart, your world, be clear.
Thanks, as always, to my partner, David Middleton: first reader, sounding board, confidant. Lover, teacher, friend.
Thanks, also, to my son, the actor Michael Karl Richards, whose dreams are contagious and who understands the place where artistic integrity and creativity fuel each other’s hearts.
And thanks to my brother, Dr. Peter Huber. You keep me walking toward the light.
I must again thank the L.A. Conservancy—http://www.laconservancy.org/. This remains one of the top organizations dedicated to historic preservation in the world. They have to be: Los Angeles is such a dynamic city, reinventing herself every minute. It’s easy for a lot of people to forget the importance of the past. History is sometimes lost in a heartbeat. And though it occasionally seems as though the L.A. Conservancy wages a heartbreaking losing battle in the fight to save pieces of this amazing city, it makes the wins they do enjoy all the more sweet. Check out their Last Remaining Seats program for an example of this. Kitty would be glad to know her beloved Million Dollar Theater survives pretty much as she knew it and as we see it in this book.
And you, of course, gentle reader. Thanks for participating in another one of Kitty’s journeys. Without you, all of it would be quite without point.
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