The High Notes: A Novel(65)

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The after-parties were fun for a while, when she went with Clay and Boy and Star, looking awestruck and clinging to Boy. But Iris knew the best of it, the long hard road she’d traveled to reach where she stood now, with the Grammy in her hand. The life she’d led had given her something to write and sing about. Everything she’d done and lived and suffered and hoped, and the love and joy she and Clay shared now, was in her songs.





To Beatie, Trevor, Todd, Nick,

Samantha, Victoria, Vanessa,

Maxx, and Zara,

To my darling children,

May you be blessed and lucky and happy,

and may you find the right person to love you with all their heart,

and may you love them, with all yours.

With all my love,

Mom / d.s.