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I am not certain about many things, but I am certain I would not have been able to write a single coherent sentence without the many peole who offered moral support, material assistance, and the gifts of friendship and simple curiosity along the way.
My first debt is to the talented scholars who began making adoption history visible at the very moment I stumbled on the topic. Bernadine Barr, Laura Briggs, Wayne Carp, Joan Hollinger, Randy Kennedy, Barbara Melosh, Margaret Rhodes, and Nikki Strong-Boag have been unfailingly encouraging teachers and supportive colleagues. For generously agreeing to read drafts, sometimes more than once, I wish to thank Bernadine Barr, Betty Bayer, Laura Briggs, John Carson, Fran Cherry, Joan Hollinger, Jeff Ostler, and Margaret Rhodes. Wayne Carp, Robert D. Johnston, and Barbara Melosh read this book in manuscript for the University of Chicago Press. Their incisive questions renewed my determination to aim high at a point when my energy was low. That I could not follow through on all of their challenging suggestions suggests my own limitations rather than theirs.
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