acknowledgements
Many thanks to Lefty and Phete, as always, for putting up with my years of projectile-vomiting random and bizarre ideas at them, and most especially for helping me sort through the detritus for the few gems in the mountain of brainfart.
Many thanks to Judy, for reminding me every so often that I owed it to these characters to keep plowing through their story.
Many thanks to Cath for being invested in this book, for asking the questions that needed to be asked, for helping me get my thoughts in order, and for lending me a little enthusiasm on the occasions that mine ran out.
