What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?--it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by.
                                    -- Jack Kerouac ... On The Road

To:
Laura, who said, "Writing is never a waste of time." Words cannot express the hours spent in our holes laughing and crying together over this band. You have been the best friend, and the largest contributor to the inspiration of this project. I hope you know that.

Kirsten, who, in 2001 said, "When they go on tour, we're going together." And stuck to it. My tour sister who has seen me through every single Hanson concert I have ever been to since we met in 2000. There is not a show, a roadtrip, or a movie theatre experience without you doing something that totally humiliates me. My spectral opposite, but somehow, my best friend. One day, you will get us kicked off of the tour, and I won't be happy!

Amanda, whose words are known by all as nothing but completely fabulous. I never imagined in my wildest dreams (and believe me, you were in them, your long furry neck held clearly above the jungle of grass I'm always stuck in) that I would be sitting in the back of your car shooting the shit about the Hanson Fiction Heyday. You are everything I thought you'd be, and more ;) There never was, and never will be a Hanson trip without you, New Jersey and the Honda Civic, at least, in spirit.

Jackie, Hanna, Aileen, Claudia, Kiley, Meg, Emily, Lily, Stephanie, Abby, and all others who contributed, Your contribution to and enthusiasm for this project has inspired and encouraged me to see this through when I was about to scrap it after Pittsburgh. You are the smartest, most wonderful people I have ever gotten to know - and if I haven't expressed that enough, you will at least always have this page to refer to :). Your words and support have brought me to laughing tears more than once, and I know that they will only affect others in the same way. Thank you for loving this as much as I do, and for putting aside the time to express that.

Everyone I met on tour and otherwise, Thank you for making it worth while when Hanson couldn't. I will never forget this summer.

And last but not least, Isaac, Taylor, and Zac, for inspiring these words, leading me to these people, and granting me peace while lost and far, far away from home. Summer after summer, year after year: This has changed my day.