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backups, but I didn’t think anyone would believe a place this
gross would actually be rented to humans.
Thank you to my teenage consultants—Kiana, Morgan
MacLeod and Oceanna Juhlke—for taking on some inter-
esting questions without flinching! I appreciate your unique
insights.
There are three people I will always be thankful for:
Jocelyn Brown, Marina Endicott and Sarah Harvey. Jocelyn

and Marina, you made me believe I could be a writer and
took those first early steps with me. Sarah, you picked Rodent
out of a slush pile and started me on the path I am now on.
And your patience with my sentence fragments. Your medal
is coming in the mail!
Thank you to the readers, friends, teachers and admin-
istrators who support my writing. It’s an honor to be able to

share my stories with you.
Thank you to friends (and friends of friends) on Facebook
who respond to my random writing questions with enthusiasm.
Thanks, Mike Fisher, for answering my trucking questions.
Any mistakes and omissions on that topic are my own.
Last but not least, thank you to my husband, Mike (also
counselor extraordinaire), and my children, Liam, Maia
(the queen of Would You Rather) and Anna. You are the spice
of life and always patient with the long hours I spend writing

and editing. (And I can’t forget Chloe the cat, who’s a great
writing buddy and so worth the allergies.)

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