This is my A/N for the published book.  It wasn't what I originally had written, but two weeks ago my mom had a medical emergency, and I took a next day flight to Arizona. Sitting there in my childhood room, by myself, I thought of all that has transpired in the nearly 50 years of my life.  I found the old pictures of my growing up years, the little boy who had no clue what was around the bend.  And it brought me back again to those things that truly matter in life, when it comes down to the end of it.  And there I wrote the above,  as much for myself as for you beautiful people, about the bonds of family and the power of love,  not the plastic hollywood crap, but a love that dares enough to be given.   

- Jay