DEDICATION

To the princess, I found crying in the library a month ago, who deserves every chance at living her fairytale. Maybe in an alternate universe, you're Happily Ever After is with a writer. Who knows?

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DEDICATION

To the woman who first believed in me, the subject of all my prose and poetry, my muse, my heart, and probably the only person who can make this amateur writer revise this dedication page over and over again just to make sure I don't screw up my words: Ebony Suarez.

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DEDICATION

To my dearest Ebony—I wouldn't be able to publish this book without your love and support which fuels my pen. Thank you for being my critique, my beta reader, and my life partner.

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DEDICATION

To my fiancé, Ebony. If I were to be honest (no offense to my readers), I find myself more excited to start the new chapter in our lives than to start a new chapter in my written works.

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DEDICATION

To my wife, the love of my life, the reason for all my sunshines and sunsets, whose sleepy smile I want to wake up to every morning and whose lips I want to kiss every night, the missing half ripped from the fabric of my own soul, Ebony.

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DEDICATION

To the mother of my twins—one that has your eyes and my personality, and another that has my lips and your hair color—after all these years, I can hardly believe you're mine. To many more taxes and diapers and lifetimes ahead of us my most cherished one, Ebony.

Until the day I retire, all my works will be dedicated to you.