Read this first (seriously) -- a quick but important note -- I think it's time -- furbys, beanie babies & other nasty lies -- Edinburgh -- scotland, grief & the vibrator in my grandma's garage -- Hear me, my love -- an ode to cheese & those born hungry -- we deserve better supervillains than a dude named jeff -- Not nice -- intimidating women & fear boners -- Bitter ink -- rejection, failure & the end of the world -- Whisky girl -- everything i learned from being in love -- notes from an amateur anthropologist: tinder -- Brother -- portrait of a good man -- am i still a good person if i keep waxing my pubes? -- Poems about self-love -- the righteous anger of the swindled & starving -- Haunted hallways -- my roommate's mother's ghost -- Such a pretty face -- we've been working for free & we don't even get dental -- affirmations for people just doing their best -- Satellites -- change is constant, karen's on a vespa & we need to get on board -- twenty-nine-year-three-hundred-and-sixty-four-day-and-twenty-two-hour-old virgin -- Loose hands -- so you auditioned for the leading lady & you got cast as a the cow -- Flowers to the hilltop -- heart surgeons, grizzly bears & the horrible, stubborn slowness of growth -- a messy bitch's guide to letting go -- what if no one remembers me? -- This healing business -- outer space felonies & the delicate magic of zooming out -- Unremarkable -- who wants to share their testimony? who wants to face who they've been? -- Clementine -- you're gonna die alone -- Closure -- emo kids, daffodils & microdosing tragedy as a practice in survival -- Self-portrait -- in defense of pigeons: the case for mercy -- Poem for a child -- the most power question in the world -- Bad habits -- a confession to my lover (should i ever find you) -- Little girls -- to my mother's inner child -- It was good enough for me -- instructions for my funeral -- Meet me in the garden -- where you gonna go from here? -- everything the kids should know -- acknowlegments.
Summary:
"Dear reader just doing your best, Give me a minute, and I'll tell you a story. I'll tell you about my junior high soulmate, my haunted house, and running away to Scotland to lose my virginity. I'll tell you about my ardent belief in the power of cheese and the goodness of pigeons, the rules for attending a funeral, and my struggle to reconcile feminism with Brazilian bikini waxes. I'll tell you about my greatest failures and the many ways I have suffered because of my fear. I'll tell you about my greatest triumphs and exactly how I figured out how to be a person I'm proud of. If you've ever felt the visceral fear of being abandoned or the anxious anticipation of change, you might find something here like hope or validation. If you've ever wondered if you had it in you to start over, or if you've found yourself questioning what you've always believed, you might find a road map to navigating both."--Page 2 of cover.
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