Acknowledgements…

Draft Page from my Doctoral Dissertation


To my friends… talent and skill can only take you so far. The rest of the way you will need friends. These friends need to be acknowledged:

Lisa Miranda, not only did she mentored this research project, she had faith in me by allowing my clinical internship at her private practice (despite vehement opposition by an harpy) and Norma Maldonado who helped me pull through the clinical infernship (a portmanteau, in case you were wondering).

Javier Meléndez and Ilia Rosario (with Rosa Rivera and Lening Olivera) that jumped at the opportunity to help me, when lobby was hard against it.

Hernán Vera and Elsie Ruiz who rescued me from the mean-evil-psychologists.

Liliana Alvarado (Jeannette too) without whom I’ll still be reading the manual and trying to figure out deadlines.

Does grandma count as a friend?

And those childhood friends Sergio, Cheo, Cesar, who had stood in the line and (quite literally) shed blood with me…

And new friends, Adrián Flores, who protects me from the legion of enemies that travel from East to West (or the other way around)…

The rest can go and f