Let Me Tell You Something (27 page)

This book was a labor of love and I really want to thank the people who helped make it a reality.

Lisa Sharkey, Amy Bendell, Paige Hazzan, and the team at Harper­Collins, thank you for having faith in me and believing in this project.

Brian Dow, thank you so much for your support in dealing with the craziness that has become my life.

And to Kevin Dickson, my partner in crime: we did it. I love you to death.

Credits

All photos courtesy of the author except page xx © Jerritt Clark/Getty Images.

Copyright

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING
. Copyright © 2013 by Caroline Manzo. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

All photos courtesy the author except the photograph for Part I © Jerritt Clark/Getty Images.

ISBN 978-0-06-221887-2

EPub Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN: 9780062218896

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Photographic Insert

This is me at two years old.Such a baby!

One of my favorite photos of me at school. I thought that butterfly pin was the coolest thing.

I'm about nine years old here—another classic school picture.

Me and my brother Chris at our farmhouse in upstate New York. I'm about ten, and he's six.

Oh my God. This outfit, this makeup, this hair. I don't even know what to say.

Working in my father's office in 1982. I was twenty-one.

Al and me when we first started dating, at my house in Kinnelon, New Jersey.

Albert and me with Aunt Josie, his favorite, at our wedding. July 7, 1984.