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Acknowledgments

I long ago told myself that writing a book would be a lot of
work, and I already had plenty of work without taking on a book
project. My thanks to John Woods of CWL Publishing Enter-
prises for making me an offer I couldn’t refuse, in order to get
this book out of my head and on to paper. It needed writing,
and I knew I had to write it sooner or later. This was the best of
times, thanks to John.
Sometimes what I wrote was clear and concise, and some-
times it wasn’t even close. I appreciate those people who helped
me with editing the material so that my intended audience
would more easily understand what I was trying to say. I want to
thank Bob Magnan, whose job it was to make my streams of
consciousness more readable. I am particularly indebted to
Daniel Feiman and Ed Story, two gifted associates of mine who
lent their talents to improving the quality of the content and the
clarity of the grammar in several key chapters.
Finally, all those efforts would have been in vain if my
beloved partner, Karen Dellosso, hadn’t been willing to let me
stretch already very long workdays into even longer workdays
as this book came into form.
Thank you all. I really appreciate you.