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This book is for Trixie, though she will never read it. On the most difficult days at the keyboard, when I despaired, she could always make me laugh. The words good dog are inadequate in her case. She is a good heart and a kind soul, and an angel on four feet. Unearned suffering is redemptive. —Martin Luther King Jr. Look at those hands, Oh God, those hands toiled to raise me. —Elvis Presley at his mother’s casket Table of Contents
