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information, fed and housed me, made crucial introductions, and saved
my life more than once.
Finally, my husband, Robert Gardner, has the most inexhaustible
fund of patience and goodwill of anyone I have ever known. I cannot
imagine anyone else who could have lived through my making a book
and a baby within a few months of each other, and have done so with
such grace and love.