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Table of Contents
Prologue
The Tea Set
At Least Ten Questions
Book I: California – Chapter One
Why I Married the First Man Who Asked Me
How I Met Him
The Dance Floor: Preamble
On the Dance Floor
Surrender: Preamble
Surrender: Tuesday, August 14
Downtown
Not for the Japanese
Book I: California – Chapter Two
Hill Kisses
Confessions
Spaces
Playing like Idiots
One More Bombshell
His Big Hurry
Book I: California – Chapter Three
Earthquake Country, when I was fifteen and my brother twelve.
Losing My First Job
Beaten
And Andy
Buried Treasure
Biding My Time
My Parents’ House
Where to Go, What to Wear
Book I: California – Chapter Four
My Father’s Suits
His Study
Haven
The Wall of Maps
Fear of Falling
Losses
What Happened Next
Book I: California – Chapter Five
Out for a beer, one night
Me and the Boys
Mary’s Stories
Back at the Table
The Point of Talking
Two Steps Forward . . .
Reluctant Hero
Slogging through Mud
Translation Lessons
And all that time—
The Daring Young Man (and Woman) on the Flying Trapeze
Book I: California – Chapter Six
When I was Twelve
And Again
Up a Tree
Rumblings
The Upstairs Landing
“I don’t know.”
Breathless
Longing
Tennis Truce
Book I: California – Chapter Seven
War Stories by Candlelight
“Exactly,”
Acceptance
Caveat
Later that Night
The Curious Way One Thing Leads to Another
Book I: California – Chapter Eight
The Final Battle
The First Day
A Different Table
And the Boys
Rumors
The Argument Heats Up
Following a Lighter Vein
The Widening Gyre
That Day on the Hill
The Shirts of George the Third
Why we were there
Book I: California – Chapter Nine
Trapped Coyote
Transitions
Counting Rhyme
December
Book I: California – Chapter Ten
Dresses
Saturday Night
Sunday Morning
Proposals
Book I: California – Chapter Eleven
Going Home
To the Mountains
Book I: California – Chapter Twelve
Night Rounds
Changing Bandages
Outside the Door
My First Death
What Rose Said
Redwoods
Those Three Days
Book I: California – Chapter Thirteen
Juanita
Broken Hearts
The Start of a Great Friendship
Fictions and Fallacies
Book I: California – Chapter Fourteen
Endings
Miracles and Magic
Split Bodies
The Aftermath
A Failure of Imagination
Separate Lives
The Next Bed
Sunday in October
Book I: California – Chapter Fifteen
Cowboy Boots
The Story
First Fight
There’s No Such Thing as One-Way Communication
Three More Days
Getting It Straight
Book I: California – Chapter Sixteen
On the Bus
Signing
Andy Takes a Stand
In the Glow
After the Dishes are Cleared
Of Hats and Hedges
Dancing into a Corner
Book I: California – Chapter Seventeen
Return Trip
The Bargains We Make
Be Careful What You Wish For
Forgiveness
Damaged Goods
Laying the Plot
Pulling It Off
Danny’s Leg
Book I: California – Chapter Eighteen
Damages
Two Dialogues
Monologue
Uniforms
Bells
Prologue versions
Prologue (first version)
The Tea Set (1)
Home Ground
The old-fashioned way
At Least Ten Questions (1)
Eyebrows Arched
Prologue (second version)
The Tea Set (2)
At Least Ten Questions (2)
Earlier versions
Bells (original)
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