Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraphs

Part I

Once Upon a Time, Claude Was Born

One Date

Residency

Bedtime Story

Things They Told Doctors

Losers

Air Currents and Other Winds

Halloween

Maybe

Invention

Naming Rights

Push

Shove

Mapping

Part II

One Thing

Rival Neighbor Princess

Everyone Who?

Strategically Naked

Stalls

Fifty-Fifty

Annus Mirabilis

Preventative Madness

Transformation

Red Roo Rising

Fire

Hedge Enemies

Who Knows?

Parenting in the Dark

I’m Nobody! Who Are You?

Vagina Shopping

Part III

Exit Rows

Away

Aid Ambiguous

Novice

Bonesetters

Oral Tradition

Under Pants

The Color of Monday

An Ending

Part IV

Ever

After

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

Also by Laurie Frankel

About the Author

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