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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you, Debbie Watson (counselor extraordinaire), for

sharing ideas and insights and for your feedback and encour-
agement while I wrote this book. The staff at the Sexual
Assault Centre of Edmonton was also extremely helpful and
supportive. In particular, thanks to Jess Marie for her feed-
back on a variety of topics!
Thank you to the whole team at Orca: Sarah Harvey
(editor extraordinaire), who saw the potential in this story, ADVANCE READING COPY

Teresa Bubela for her cover design, Sofía Bonati for the cover
illustration and all the people who work behind the scenes
with such professionalism. You truly are a well-oiled machine
(with a very human touch!).
Thanks also to Hilary McMahon and Liz Culotti (agents
extraordinaire) at Westwood Creative Artists for all their
efforts on my behalf.
Thanks to Lisa Wickstrom (friend extraordinaire) for
reading an earlier draft of this book, and to Lisa and Karen

Wickstrom for any stolen dialogue. You always were the
clever ones. To the fellow survivors of “the” basement suite—
solidarity, ladies. I thought of throwing in a few sewage

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