Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 How to Have a Total Breakdown 7
Chapter 2 You Need Therapy 11
Chapter 3 Don't Should Yourself 19
Chapter 4 I Can't Even 27
Chapter 5 Arranged 33
Chapter 6 Baggage 43
Chapter 7 Finders Keepers 51
Chapter 8 In Between 59
Chapter 9 Ready or Not 67
Chapter 10 Smile 77
Chapter 11 Sophie's Hot Dad 85
Chapter 12 The Gift 95
Chapter 13 Too Soon 103
Chapter 14 Not *That* Kind of Christian 111
Chapter 15 Flip the Nuggets 119
Chapter 16 Meet the Parents (All of Them) 127
Chapter 17 In the Darkness 135
Chapter 18 Oops 141
Chapter 19 Sad Nora and the Secret Baby 147
Chapter 20 Memorial Day 155
Chapter 21 Armless 167
Chapter 22 Should I Marry a Boy with a Brain Tumor? 177
Chapter 23 Feeling Myself 183
Chapter 24 Options 189
Chapter 25 All My Children 191
Chapter 26 Sad and Lucky 197
Chapter 27 Dear 203
Chapter 28 Dear Ralphie 205
Chapter 29 Dear Baby 211
Chapter 30 Dear Sophie 215
Chapter 31 Dear Ian 221
Chapter 32 Feminist Agenda 225
Chapter 33 Big, Gross, Angry Feminist 229
Chapter 34 Destroy the Patriarchy After You Propose to Me 233
Chapter 35 What I've Learned from Arguing on the Internet 241
Chapter 36 Don't Read the Comments 243
Chapter 37 35 249
Chapter 38 Greatness and Goodness 255
Chapter 39 She Persisted 261
Chapter 40 Yes, And 265
Acknowledgments 271