Now Is the Hour (68 page)

My thanks to Jayne Yaffe Kemp.

Thanks to
Tin House
magazine.

Thank you, Powell's on Hawthorne.

Thanks, Donna Meyer of Baker and Meyer Attorneys at Law, and Karen Berkowitz of Legal Aid Services of Oregon.

My thanks to the Naraya Community, the Portland Faeries, and the Dangerous Writers.

Big thanks go to the neurologists and the cardiologists and the hematologists at Oregon Health Sciences University.

Thank you, Jackie Czerepinski. Old Friends/Bookends.

And to my family—Barbara, John, and Jerry, and my father, John. Jamie and her Lily, Cody, and Nick, and their mother, Trina Green. You too, Karen.

Pocatello, Idaho, my apologies for the fictional liberties I took with my hometown.

My love and special thanks to Thomas Soames. I am blessed to have your friendship.

And most of all, my love to Michael Sage Ricci, my beautiful friend. It is my pleasure to rest in your company.

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“Now Is the Hour” by Dorothy M. R. Stewart, Clement Scott © 1946, 1975, 2003 by MCA Music Publishing. All rights administered by Universal Music Corp./ASCAP. Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved, “Now Is the Hour” by Maewa Kaihua, Dorothy Stewart, Clement Scott. Copyright © 1956 by Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc. Copyright © Renewed. International Rights Secured. Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved. “San Francisco Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair” by John E. A. Phillips © 1967, 1995 by American Broadcasting Music Inc. All rights administered by Universal Music Corp./ASCAP. Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved.

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