# Acknowledgments explained — You Can’t Win

> Chapter companion for You Can’t Win by Jack Black.

## What happens

The author dedicates the book to Fremont Older, Judge Frank H. Dunne, an unnamed friend who helped him escape from San Francisco jail, and a beggar named 'Sticks' Sullivan who removed buckshot from his back under a bridge in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

## Character check-ins

### Fremont Older

Dedicatee of the book

### Judge Frank H. Dunne

Dedicatee of the book

## Key lines

> This book is dedicated to Fremont Older, to Judge Frank H. Dunne, to the unnamed friend who sawed me out of the San Francisco jail and to that dirty, drunken, disreputable, crippled beggar, 'Sticks' Sullivan, who picked the buckshot out of my back⁠—under the bridge⁠—at Baraboo, Wisconsin.

The author dedicates the book to Fremont Older, Judge Frank H. Dunne, an anonymous friend who freed him from San Francisco jail, and a beggar named 'Sticks' Sullivan who removed buckshot from his back beneath a bridge in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

_Chapter consists solely of the dedication._

## Links

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