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A massive thank you to Alyssa Finn, MD (family means never being able to say no to weird literary medical requests!) and Andrew Chandler, MD for making Noah too sick for work but not too sick to write. And thank you for also walking me through the steps of making him well again. Thank you to Jay Neugeboren and Ron Kuka for teaching me how to write.
Thank you to all the people in the computer who make the world feel both smaller and bigger than it actually is. You were there for the first moment of Rachel Goldman’s existence, and you’re still there for the last words on the page. I don’t know what I did to get this lucky to connect with all of you.
Thank you to the hometown crew: Jona, Kathy, Jessica, and Michelle, for all the play dates and wine and baseball games and that most important piece of advice: No sugar below the waist. Thank you to the divine Julie Z for Thursday night talks, to Jess for Friday coffees, and to Lori for all of the random times in between. And a special thank you to the four sisters, Our Girls, who gave me a blueprint for sisterly friendships.
Thank you Randall for reading not one but two versions of this manuscript, along with countless talk-me-off-the-ledge sessions as well as making the deleted cocktails actually work. Thank you to the Bostonians—Wendy, Jonathan, Olivia, and Penelope—for cheering on the process from New England, with a special hug for Liv for making me interested in fashion with your love of design.
Thank you to my parents for the numerous ways you make our lives possible, from giving me writing time to teaching the twins how to ride bicycles. I say it every time, but it makes it no less true: we could not do this without you.
Thank you to Truman for being my furry muse; there is no one I love hashing out a scene with more than you, even when you beg for alfalfa cookies right when I’m trying to explain the nuances of Arianna’s crush. I’m glad we took a chance on one another.
A special thank you to the twins for sharing me with the computer (as well as all the times you’ve given me bolts and nails on Hay Day). You continue to amaze me, whether it is logging me in for Hour of Code or writing your own stories about vampire vigilantes or gaming spies. I am so lucky that I have a front-row seat to watching you grow up.
As always, my most enormous thank you goes to my husband, Josh, not just for giving all of Noah’s pre-corpses the title of V.I.C., but for making the world look better when I wake up on the Chekhovian side of the bed. You still make me feel like you did that first time you ever sent me an email, and I ran around my living room in a tight circle of excitement when it popped up on the screen. The words “I love you” don’t really capture the enormity of the sentiment; the way I feel about you is an untranslatable word.
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A popular blogger, Melissa Ford is the author of the award-winning website, Stirrup Queens. Melissa completed her MFA at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is also a section editor at BlogHer. Ford lives outside of Washington, DC with her writer husband, Joshua, and their twins. Visit her at melissafordauthor.com.