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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I owe the truly brilliant team at Bantam many, many thanks: Linda Grey, Steve Rubin, Stuart Applebaum, plus Jack Hoeft, Matthew Shear, Nina Hoffman, Jill Bennett, Don Weisberg, everyone in the managing editor's office, and of course, at the top, the ultissimo Alberto Vitaié. Deborah Futter, whiz-editor and special pal, deserves a huge thank-you. Three friends deserve official acknowledgment: Maggie Scarf for puliing me through, Margaret Staats Simmons who saw the problems and helped mend them, and Susan Dooley who provided optimism, good faith, good cooking, and great editorial counsel. Other friends gave generously of their time and support: Beth Brown, Myrna Blyth, Erin Dracos, Harriet Fier for her astute advice, George Friedman who offered many "cutting edge" comments, Ellen Howard, Róbert Lang, my patient and indefatigable researcher, Michael Martell and Alice Fried Martell, my good doctor Allén Mead, Glória Nagy for her jokes, cartoons, and phone messages, Carolyn Seely, Deborah Sharpé, Nicholas von Hoffman for his morning pep talks and devotion to the