* Dedications and author rant *

This book... seriously it got complicated fast. I did indeed remove entire plots and story. As those are being saved for the next books. I would have normally removed all of this stuff, all these part would have been left untold.

But I have been writing for nearly all my life, and I keep having these background chapters crop up.

This book started as the title meant. A celebration of those I lost. In the time I been editing this book. I have attended four funerals. They are people in this book. But as the further I wrote, the more background things took over. I suspect that those people will be back in my writing in other places.

It certainly is a book that got lost somewhere. I will be making a better coherent story that follows better the next one. This one is sort of adjustment for the next.

I did say my dyslexia sometimes writes the story backwards. This character is prime example of this happening. I first wrote her at the end of her story and had to pick what happened as I wrote other. books. She was always someone lingering at the edge of my other stories, thing major things happened to her. But I didn't have enough pieces to make a coherent follow the plot.

Now having finished the entire stack of 14 handwritten notepads beside my bed this past year. I think I can make it.

So onto the formalities...

I hope my love for these people never fades as their memories will stay immortal in my books.

I will always love and miss you.

Robert Sharpe

James Sharpe

Mavis Colluney

Helen Preist

Goodbye for now.