My personal friends know I love them, but here is a public thank-you: Thank you Charles Cobb, Bill and Cynthianna Lightfoot, James Loadholt, Courtland Milloy, Barrett and Judy Nnoka, Sec. Alphonso Jackson and Marcia Jackson, Diane Thomson, Lucille Blair, Bess Rothenberg, Michael Hicks, Donna Brazile, Robert Traynham, David Brand, Cheryl Gibert, Dante James, Armstrong Williams, Gabe Mehretaab, Fritz and Diane Bech, Dean Elliott, Bob Wilson, Catherine Cook-Holmes, Jerralynn Ness, Cathleen O’Brian, Scott Simon, Alex Chadwick, Richard Strauss, Paul Thaler, Bill Burton, Elizabeth Burch, Serena Jones, Chris Cowan, Bill and Gail Herald, and my trusted minister, Father John Harmon.
My brother and sister, Roger and Elena, are lifelong treasures. My in-laws are always surrounding me with love: Scooter and Leathia West, Ginger Macomber, and Beat Jenny. Thanks to my cousins, Ligia, Gracie, Haroldo, Ricardo, Calito, Rilda, Armonia, Ruby, Linda. And much love to the next generation, Jonathan, Jonathan, Alexandria, Marisa, Ashely, Christopher, Paul, Chip, Omar, and Nadia.
And I am eternally grateful for my core—beginning with my loving wife, Delise. You put up with a lot and I know it.
Thanks to my children for being so loving—Antonio, Regan, Raffi, son-in-law Patrick, and the joyful one—my grandson, Elias West Herald. God Bless.
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