Pug Hill - Alison Pace [113]
“Ready?” Ben asks me.
“Ready,” I say, and I can’t help thinking that maybe this is all a dream. But a girl can dream. And a girl like me, I’m pretty good at that.
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I am, by the way, thirty-one. In Mom’s book however, I am thirty-two. Mom’s a fan of rounding people’s ages up. As soon as your thirty-first birthday has passed, you are, in her book, thirty-two. She has always done this, in a way I have come to believe is hostile.
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
chapter one - The End
chapter two - There Are No Pugs at Pug Hill
chapter three - You May Feel Sad
chapter four - Single Jewish Male, 32, Likes: Squash; Hedge Funds; WASPs; Long ...
chapter five - Set Me Free, Why Don’t You, Babe
chapter six - Elliot, My Elliot
chapter seven - Overcoming Presentation Anxiety
chapter eight - Just Like Jean-Paul Belmondo, Albeit Briefly
chapter nine - Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game
chapter ten - There’s One, One Pug
chapter eleven - I Am Jan Brady
chapter twelve - How Awful Would It Be If This Thing Stopped?
chapter thirteen - I Should Tell You About the Commune
chapter fourteen - Man!
chapter fifteen - We Should Really All Just Go Get a Drink
chapter sixteen - The Encyclopedia of Dogs
chapter seventeen - Under No Circumstances Are You to Mention the Tent
chapter eighteen - Be My Boswell
chapter nineteen Haiku Is a Seventeen-Syllable Verse Form
chapter twenty - Cornered
chapter twenty-one - All the Ones Who Went the Way My Boyfriends Tend to Go
chapter twenty-two - To All the Dogs I’ve Loved Before
chapter twenty-three - What If I’d Just Laughed?
chapter twenty-four - I Coulda Been a Contender
chapter twenty-five - I’ve Been Looking So Long at These Pictures of You
chapter twenty-six - Standing on Smith Street in My Pumas, Waiting
chapter twenty-seven - I Want to Tell You a Story
chapter twenty-eight - Breakfast at Pug Hill
chapter twenty-nine - How Do You Know?
chapter thirty - You Are My Best Friend
chapter thirty-one - You’re Not Ready and You Don’t Know What You Want
chapter thirty-two - Ready?
chapter thirty-three - She Really Was Magnificent
chapter thirty-four - Do You Want To Dance Under the Moonlight?
chapter thirty-five - The Beginning