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     THANK you 
     
    
   
   
    
     Special thanks to: my patient publisher, Francis 
     
     Mitchell, and his staff; Kelly Gillis for her patience and 
     
     help with computers; and my housemate, Lianne Ryan, 
     
     for reading and proofreading the text, supplying the 
     
     illustrations for Chapter 5 and the cover, and providing 
     
     help with technology. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Also to Reginald Porter for thousands of hours of 
     
     discussion over the past thirty-five years, and to Henri 
     
     Gaudet for the illustrations for Chapters 1 through 4.