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To my beta readers, sensitivity readers, and blurbers . . . this wasn’t an easy book to write and it definitely wasn’t an easy one to read. I had so many doubts and insecurities, and I second-guessed myself the entire way. But you each took the time to respond to my questions and to hold me in my most vulnerable state. Thank you.
To Rachelle Baker, this cover . . . EPIC!! Thank you a million times over.
Huge shout-out to the publicity, marketing, School and Library, and design teams at HarperCollins. You all stepped up in a major way to support this book, and I’m excited to continue working together.
To Ben Rosenthal and Katherine Tegen, you continue to support every wild (read: insane) book idea I’ve had, without hesitation. I’m super grateful you took a chance on me when others wouldn’t. We make an excellent team.
Tanu Srivastava, you were the MVP during the Covid pandemic getting this book through its final days before print. I appreciate you!
Natalie Lakosil, the fact that I could sit on the beach and have a conference call with you in the middle of the work week is the best example of how you’ve changed my life for the better.
I feel like I should thank my therapist . . . because without her, I would not have been able to reconcile what happened to me and see that I am not my mistakes. So thank you for being so brilliant.
Proverbs 3:5–6 . . . Amen.
Last . . . MUTE MUTHERF*CKING R. KELLY!!!! www.muterkelly.org.
About the Author
Photo by Andrew Fennell TIFFANY D. JACKSON is the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly, Monday’s Not Coming, and Let Me Hear a Rhyme. A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book and Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award winner, she received her bachelor of arts in film from Howard University, earned her master of arts in media studies from the New School, and has over a decade in TV and film experience. The Brooklyn native still resides in the borough she loves. You can visit her at www.writeinbk.com.
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