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  57. Acknowledgements

The waitress arrived and they looked up and ordered tom yum noodles and then they looked over the table at each other and there they were.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Throughout my life I’ve been granted many second chances. Through the patience, love and compassion of countless people I feel like I’ve had the strange and wonderful opportunity to live two lives in one body. There are many people without whom this book would not have been possible. In an attempt to name all of them, I am bound to miss some of them. Please know I am grateful to you all.

Thanks first and always to Sue, Joan, Vaunda, Kay, Sheila and Anna.

Thanks also to Therese, Shona, Becca, Sydney, Noeline, Emma Hislop, Aidan Rasmussen, Rebecca Rasmussen, Selva and Oriol, Cherie Connor, John Brooks, Mirabelle and Iris, Murray Hewitt, Lenni, Anna Sanderson, Anne Kennedy, Chris McIntyre, Sinead Overbye, Anahera Gildea, Annaleese Jochems, Eamonn Marra, Jackson Nieuwland, Carolyn DeCarlo, Alisha Tyson, Helen Heath, Helen Lehndorf, Maria McMillan, Carl Shuker, Anna Smaill, Cassandra Barnett, Sarah Graham, Chris Hilliard, Rose and Tess, Victor Rodger, Simon Sweetman, Elizabeth Knox, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Dominic Hoey, Laurence Fearnley, Sora Kim-Russell, Laura Vincent, Hera Lindsay Bird, Kylie Boxall, Kerry Donovan Brown, Tia Narvaez, Nicky Taylor, Paula Kimble, Gregory Kan, Rose Lu, Emily Writes, Sarah-Jane Parton, Lukasz Buda, Rachel O’Neill, Giovanni Tiso, Justine Fletcher, Lucia, Ambrose and Joseph, Brannavan Gnanalingam, Murdoch Stephens, Jo Randerson, Tracey Monestra, Clare McIntosh, Nina Powles, Chris Tse, Mia Farlane, Chloe Lane, Ebony Lamb, Catherine Robertson, Tayi Tibble, Gem Wilder, Sarah Bainbridge, Claire Mabey, Kirsten Le Harivel, Hannah Mettner, Sam Searle, Nikki-Lee Birdsey, William Brandt, Gigi Fenster, James Brown, Ken Duncum, Maree Brown, Caitlin Smith, Raewyn Glynn, Tokerau Wilson, Mary-Jane Duffy, Cassandra Rivers, Ingrid Horrocks, Brandy Scott, Elliot Elam, Sharon Lam, Jacqui Moyes, Emily Perkins, Damien Wilkins, Chris Price, Louisa Buchanan, Whiti Hereaka, James George, Megan Dunn, Mark Amery, Frances Cooke, Helen Rickerby, Catherine Woulfe, Jesse Mulligan, Sam Duckor-Jones, Avi Duckor-Jones, Mary Chapman, Andrew Larking, past and present CREW254 and 354 workshops, and all the people I work with at IIML, Whitireia, AUT, Arohata Prison, City Gallery Wellington, Radio New Zealand and everywhere else.

I really appreciated Rebecca Hawkes agreeing to read an early draft of this work and am extremely grateful for her insightful feedback which helped make this book so much better.

In 2018, I was quite shocked that my book The New Animals was awarded the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize. In a lot of ways, this prize gave me the courage to write this book. I am very grateful to the organisers, the judges Anna Smaill, Philip Matthews, Jenna Todd, Alan Taylor, and Jann Medlicott whose generosity makes this award possible.

I am also very grateful for the financial support of Creative New Zealand, which made this book possible.

Thanks to Brent, Bo and Coco. What an incredible gift to live with three such wonderful earthlings.