Dedicated to my mother, Virginia Cafferky, who passed in 2013. She was an example of how to live life fully, and her compassion knew no bounds. Virginia was a librarian who loved learning and the written word, so it is fitting that my first book be dedicated to her. Thanks Mom!“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

—W. B. Yeats

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