How Tía Lola Ended Up Starting Over (19 page)

Just as Tía Lola

loves to invite guests

to her B&B,

I am inviting

each of you

who helped me write this book

to a free weekend

at Tía Lola’s C&C&C:

Weybridge Elementary School

Roberto Veguez

Lyn Tavares

Susan Bergholz

Erin Clarke

Bill Eichner

Brian Goodwin

Katherine Branch

Erica Stahler

The Snells at Tourterelle

The Middlebury College Men’s and Women’s
Water Polo Teams

Brad Nadeau (who deserves a season’s worth of weekends)

Hannah and Missy Williams (who helped me prove a point)

Muchas gracias
and many thanks to all of you and to la Virgencita de la Altagracia.