To Blue, who showed me that we could do six impossible things before breakfast; who encouraged me to leap and let the net appear; that life is best lived outside the comfort zone.

And to all of my tax buddies around the United States that read my Tax Update Newsletter for Colleges and Universities. We like to talk tax. They are the special people who understand the difference between tax and accounting—that tax is about people and accounting is about numbers.

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