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Special thanks to Daniel Hughes for making this book happen with his amazing artistic abilities, and to Shizue Harrison for her extraordinary skill and reliability in seeing the project to completion. Special thanks also to Christy Hughes for proofreading everything and telling me when there was not “enough Jennifer” in it.

Thank you also to the other contributing colorists:
Frederico Ramirez, Michael Sellona and Brittany Heiner.

A million thanks to Anne Golob of Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary for granting the requested permissions. Merriam-Webster is the best dictionary on the planet!

Thank you to Gary Martin at The Phrase Finder for
granting permission to quote from his website!
http://www.phrases.org.uk/

Thank you to Michael E. Eidenmuller for
permission to use the most succinct definition ever for "paradox"
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Thank you so much to friends and family who supported and endured me while I was working on this. I won’t name people, because I’ll inevitably leave someone out, but...

This website, the books and all of my love forever are
dedicated to Jonathan Scott Hughes

If you wish to make a donation to the
Jonathan Scott Hughes Music Scholarship Fund,
please click on the link to the left.

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