The name of this book is based on a poem my father wrote to me when I was six, called "A Rosebud Named Madeline." That poem is the prologue of this book. The book is dedicated to my Grandfather, Asa Berlin, who was undergoing bypass surgery as I was assmebling it. The poem "Heart to Heart" is written to him. My father also wrote the epilogue, "Rosebud Blooming," the book's namesake.
