Preston Falls

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Thanks to Jeff Giles, who read it first, for his advice and encouragement, for ridiculing several bum titles, and for not campaigning longer than six months for his bum title.

To Susan Szeliga, for letting loose with telepathi-cally apt suggestions.

To David Spry, for reassurance early on.

To Marjorie Horvitz, for vigilant copyediting and embarrassingly good catches.

To Gary Fisketjon, for the kind of editing that supposedly doesn't get done anymore, for a green-penciled duh where duh was the mot juste, and for taking this on in the first place.

To Amanda Urban, for state-of-the-art advocacy and cut-to-the-chase commentary.

To Cathleen McGuigan and my other editors at Newsweek, for the leaves of absence that helped me get this done.

And to Susan and Kate, for just about everything.

This book is for my father, Gene Gates.

So I saw in my dream that the man began to run. Now, he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, "Life! life! eternal life!"

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