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Contents
About the Author ..............................................vii
Acknowledgements ...........................................viii
Foreword ..........................................................xiii
Time Changes Everything ...................................1
I Remember Papa ................................................3
Paterfamilias........................................................5
The House is Burning Down ...............................7
My Mother and the Kosher Butcher ....................9
Swan Lake .........................................................11
You Can Cross ..................................................13
Enemas: A Love Story .......................................15
Bunyips Really Exist .........................................17
My Orthodontist ...............................................19
My Mother’s Pocketbook ...................................21
The Truth about Falsies .....................................23
Sweet Sixteen and Finally Been Kissed ..............25
Not College Material .........................................27
Barbara and Her Mother, Anne .........................29
Mae ...................................................................33
The Menopause Ward .......................................35
Hyannis: Summer 1969 .....................................37
Williams Hall ...................................................41
A Unique Global Positioning System .................43
Fried Zucchini Blossoms ...................................45
Bonnie ..............................................................47
Ruth ..................................................................51
Betty .................................................................53
My Favorite Lesbian ..........................................57
Two Jesses .........................................................61
Jill’s Birth ..........................................................65
The Wedding: Before and After .........................67
