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Index
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Part One: Before
Before
Offering
Something Valuable Given Away on the Street
Apple Cake
What a Waste
Invent a New Creation Myth
Spelling It Out
Good Manners
Unfamiliar
Visiting Nurse
Young Wasn’t It
An Issue of Clothes
Watching Her Father Eat Cake
Jimi
I Ran Away
Everyone Agreed
Not Just for Myself
Respect for My Elders
Inappropriately Dressed for the Occasion
No Underwear
Exhausted
A Simple Solution
“Hey Jude”
Mumps and My Second Husband
He Filled My Door
Something Overheard
In the Morning
The Money
A Proposal of Marriage
You Felt What You Felt
The Stanhope
We Had a Daughter
Definition of “Marriage”
I Found Out Later
Fencing
An Artist of Sorts
His Suggestion
Nothing Was Anywhere
Chaos
Nothing under Her Hood
Overturned Rowboat
Then What Did He Say?
His Affair
Her Affair
She Imagines His Side
Not Meaning to Brag
The World Looked Different
No Happy Answers
But It Got Better
I Had a Good View
Such Appetites
Friends Again
And He Told Good Stories
Married Men
Free to Give
Mortality
Part Two: Mortality
I Ate There Once
Her Second Husband’s Lack of Beliefs
Bluefish and Her Father
The Horse Chestnut
An Elegant Theory
Gone
To Keep Him Company
Eating Peanuts
Skipping Stones
Sufficient Information
Her Third Husband
Insomnia
Social Security
Ponds
This Thanksgiving
What Goes through the Mind While Stripping the Meat from the Bones
Where Are the Kids
Weather
Impatience
Tomorrow
Witness to His Life
When He Told Her
His Cosmic Joke
What It Was Called
Coming Home Tomorrow
The Animal They Made
Drifting Away
Part Three: Here and Now
The New Year
Rocking Chair
Grateful
The Mothers of New York
Wattles
Power
Nothing Is Wasted
What I Can’t Resist
Formidable
What We Want
Comfort
Safekeeping
My Name
A Present
Hugs
Look
Passion
Ephemera
What I Know
What the Moment Can Hold
Acknowledgments
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