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Dedication:

This one is for the beloved Sara (Douglass) Warneke, with whom I have shared the best of times and the worst. My dearest, most courageous, loyal and wittiest of friends – thank you, lovely lady, for being in my life. Long ago, Sara pushed me down the path, one she lovingly prepared for me and many others, and for that (and for so much more), I am forever grateful.

Epigraph (to part one):

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends –
It gives a lovely light!

Edna St. Vincent Millay
'First Fig'

Epigraph (to part two):

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5