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Acknowledgments

 

My thanks to Andrew DuBois, my advisor and friend;

Professor Jesse Matz and Professor Philip Fisher,

who offered valuable insights as I was writing this thesis;

Clara Boyd, Nathaniel Popper, Andrew Epstein, and Jesse Gunderson, for teaching and reminding me of friendship;

and my parents, my grandmother, Gregory, Elizabeth, and Geoffrey,

for their immeasurable influence and care.

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