Gramps, Gram, Gami, and Grandpa for being her greatest playmates and support. Aunts E and L for being amazing sisters and friends and cheerleaders. Long-distance aunts, uncles, and cousins for every email, text, and Facebook message! Great Paw Paw for being so attentive and thoughtful, seeing you and S together is the best thing in the world.

K and C for always checking up on me even when I don't respond to your texts. S' and my joint best friend A for coming over with Otto and wine whenever we need it. My "book club" girls. Our special kiddos are famous all over town. I don't even know what I would do without you. Our friends who continually send us love from Brooklyn, Cambridge, San Francisco, and Austin (look at that list of places, unbearable hipsters, the lot of you).

Our bosses and coworkers (some of whom are actual real-life friends,) who not only approve time-off requests, but are also very much needed emotional supports. Especially when she was in utero, all of the stressful and upsetting things we went through happened at work. So many at TWUMC for all the food and love. Jill and everyone at CCA for making us instantly feel like part of a community.

Her surgeons for being so competent and kind.

Old friends, sisters' friends, everyone everywhere for all the love and good advice.

POTUS because without you, S would be subject to lifetime caps and a victim of her preexisting conditions. I take great comfort in knowing that as long as I don't get myself fired, S will have the insurance and healthcare she needs, without question, until she is 26.