Table of Contents
A Note to the Reader 9
Prologue 11
Chapter 1 Ketchup 17
Chapter 2 How It Started 27
Chapter 3 Writing It Down 37
Chapter 4 Eating 46
Chapter 5 A Perfect Track Record 54
Chapter 6 Rock Masters 65
Chapter 7 In Isolation 73
Chapter 8 My Three-Ring Circus 81
Chapter 9 To Keep the Heart from Stopping 87
Chapter 10 God Will Provide 93
Chapter 11 Watching the Stars 100
Chapter 12 Birmingham 108
Chapter 13 Fed to the Wolves 118
Chapter 14 The Road Trip 128
Chapter 15 Adulthood 134
Chapter 16 Hydrophobia 145
Chapter 17 Dancing Under the Stars 151
Chapter 18 College Girl 159
Chapter 19 How to Have a Life 164
Chapter 20 Firsts 173
Chapter 21 How to Say No 180
Chapter 22 What Guys Want 193
Chapter 23 The Leaning Tower 202
Chapter 24 The Obiter 206
Chapter 25 Just Start Driving 214
Chapter 26 Half Dome 222
Chapter 27 As Far Away as I Could Get 228
Chapter 28 One Year 235
Epilogue 241
Afterword 243
Acknowledgments 251