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As always, I am extremely grateful to everyone at Delacorte Press and Penguin Random House for giving my stories a home: Beverly Horowitz, Barbara Marcus, Judith Haut, Monica Jean, Mary McCue, Kristin Schulz, Kelly McGauley, Mary McCue, Neil Swaab, Elizabeth Ward, and Jenn Inzetta. Thank you for the care you’ve given to Emory and Joey’s story.

Writing is solitary and lonely even at the best of times, so I have enormous gratitude for friends like Janet McNally, Karen McManus, Lygia Day Pe?aflor, Shannon Parker, Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, and Liz Lawson for keeping me on track with gossip, encouragement, tales of yurt life, trapeze adventures, and endless GIFs. And big thanks to my friend Beth, who let me borrow her last name for a character in this book and also went on many a dog walk with me where we talked about everything but writing.

    And in the interest of full disclosure, I’d also like to thank coffee and Grey’s Anatomy for being my constant companions while writing You’d Be Home Now. (Every writer’s process is different!)