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permissions were secured in part with the help of a generous grant from
Dean Vera Norwood of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM.
Special thanks go to my friend Martin Winkler for always being ready
with his sound advice and genial camaraderie. My heartfelt appreciation
goes to my movie pals Jon Solomon and Lois Kain for their cheerful
hospitality during my year at the University of Arizona, and their kindness
in never shushing me when I talked during the previews. I owe a huge
debt of gratitude to Kristopher Murrey and Carrie Alhelm-Sizelove, my
teaching assistants at UNM, who expertly managed the needs of many
hundreds of students in my lecture classes so I could get back to writing.
A number of close friends provided the kind of encouragement and
rewards without which no single page ever gets written: Alena Allen, Aryn
Seiler, Lorie Brau, Jeff Tatum, Heidi Genoist, Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Suzy
Smith, and Rhiannon Mayo. I want to thank my parents, Sam and Inah
Fujita, for reminding me where we come from, and my sister, Flavia D’Alo,
for showing me where we can go. This book is also dedicated to the
memory of my grandmother, Philomena Silveira, who lived a century of
epic adventures and instilled in us the same restless energy. Most of all, I
want to thank my husband, Brian Cooke, for his unwavering spirit of joy
and exploration on this shared journey of ours. “Well, the roads go without
saying, don’t they?”
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