Thank you

To Michael, and to my close group of friends, who tolerated me. To my family, who have put up with me. Thank you for being inspirations to me.

There are a few special individuals who I owe a lot of gratitude to because they allowed me to manically go off on tirades for endless hours, as they diligently kept notes, and gave thoughtful feedback, and help me organize my thoughts, and endlessly cheered me on, encouraging me, and believed in the story that I had to tell. Akiko, Saralena, Emily, Alexandra, thank you.