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Cover

Title Page

Praise

Dedication

Prologue: Open Letter to My Son

Side A: Now

Side B: Then

I ESCAPE FROM THE TROPIC OF SQUALOR

1 Lost in the Golden State

2 The Mother of Invention

3 Lackluster College Coed

4 There’s No Biz Like Po-Biz

5 Never Mind

II FLASHDANCE

6 Inheritance Tax Summer

7 The Constant Lovers

8 Temporary Help

9 There Went the Bride

10 Bound

11 In Search of Incompetence

12 Bent Bender

13 Homesick

14 The Inconceivable Meets the Conceivable

15 Journey of the Magi

16 Postal Partum

17 No Mom Is an Island

III SELF HELP

18 Ivy Beleaguered

19 The Mokus Squirreliness of the Unmet Mind

20 My Concept of Commitment

21 The Grinning Skull

22 Mass Eye

23 Lather, Rinse, Repeat

24 Affliction

25 Reprieve

26 The Reluctantly Baptized

27 The Untuned Instrument

28 Halfway Home

29 Ceremony (Nonbelievers, Read at Your Own Risk: Prayer and God Ahead)

30 Hour of Lead

IV BEING WHO YOU ARE IS NOT A DISORDER

31 A Short History of My Stupidity

32 The Nervous Hospital

33 Waking in the Blue

34 The Sweet Hereafter

35 I Accept a Position

36 Lake-Effect Humor

37 The Death of Date-o-Rama or the Romance of the Prose

38 Lord of the Flies

39 God Shopping

40 Dysfunctional Family Sweepstakes

41 It Makes a Body Wonder

42 On the Road

43 The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

44 The Bog Queen

45 My Sinfulness in All Its Ugliness

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