CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Note to Readers

1: Magical Thinking

2: Growing Up

3: That You, Pitt?

4: Birmingham to Paris

5: The 1917 Clinic

7: Beyond the Clinic

8: A Bad Model

9: “… and Twelve hours.”

11: “Because It Hurts”

12: One Step Up, Two Steps Back

13: The Promised Land

14: Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda

15: There Are No Words

16: Turning Success into Failure

17: Politics and Birthdays

20: Imagine

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