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Acknowledgments

For their expertise on matters of architecture, law, medicine, and
filmmaking, my great thanks to Matthew Baiotto, Janet Nezhad Band, Steve
Blatz, Karen Cinorre, Michael Gooen, Peter Kostant, Sam Levy, Dermot
Lynch, and Barry Tuch. Special thanks to Douglas Eakeley for his erudition
and patience, and to Priscilla Eakeley, Drew Lee, Eimear Lynch, Seth
Mnookin, Russell Perreault, Whitney Robinson, Marysue Rucci, and
Ronald and Susan Yanagihara for their unstinting support.

My deepest thanks to the brilliant Michael “Bitter” Dykes, Kate
Maxwell, and Kaja Perina for bringing my life joy, and to Kerry Lauerman
for bringing it comfort. I have long thought Yossi Milo and Evan Smoak
and Stephen Morrison and Chris Upton role models for how to behave in a
loving relationship; I appreciate and admire them for many reasons.
I’m grateful to the devoted and faithful Gerry Howard and to the

inimitable Ravi Mirchandani, who gave themselves over to the life of this
book with such generosity and dedication, and to Andrew Kidd for his
belief, and to Anna Stein O’Sullivan for her indulgence, equanimity, and
constancy. Thank you too to everyone who helped make this book happen,
in particular Lexy Bloom, Alex Hoyt, Jeremy Medina, Bill Thomas, and the
Estate of Peter Hujar.
Finally and essentially: I not only never could have, but never would

have, written this book without the conversations with—and the kindness,
grace, empathy, forgiveness, and wisdom of—Jared Hohlt, my first and
favorite reader, secret keeper, and North Star. His beloved friendship is the
greatest gift of my adulthood.