While we’re at it, though: thank you always Sarah Braun, Amy Whipple (PBUH), Allison Caesar, Buddy Coursey, Martel Fein (PBUH), Patrick Prawl, and even Neil “Shitman” Silverman, for furnishing me a first model for living with verve and style and fierce individuality. Cancer took Amy, fuck cancer, and heroin took Martel, fuck heroin, but the rest, impossibly, would all be about 60 now. I hope they’re out there somewhere, living wild and free.