I just read the comment from Stan Oakley (Hi, Stan from a fellow Marylander) and your response re putting the note on fictional names at the end of the book. Your suspicion that you’d get complaints whether front or back is correct. I read the notes at the front and then promptly turn to the back of the book to read those notes before ever beginning the story. What is this ‘self-control’ of which you speak? I have only a nodding acquaintance with it, to the extent I didn’t actually peek at the end of the story itself.

Helen Kerr, MD