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Alaina Shearer, Ken Basart, Peter Miriani, Eileen Scahill, Ben and Dana Parks, John Sherwood, Heather Stanley, Jason and Allie Beecher, Amy and Greg Cohn, Christia Vickers, Jon Wu, Melanie Larsen, Rhonda Hicks, Bob Okeefe, Anna Harris, Mark Heaney, Anthony Downs, Mark Musgjerd, Richard Peterson, Steve and Emily Broback, Biraj and Anjali Bista, Nathan and Stacey Meath, John and Andrea Kannas, Jamie and Cara Thompson, Alex and Heather Dowlin, and especially A.J. and Sonja Colianni for being there whenever I needed you.

Endless appreciation to Jeanette and Jennifer, Jasmine Payne, Aislinn Butler-Hetterman, the Valdivia family, Diane Baek, Chandra Locke-Bradley, Kathy Dixon, and especially Anya Kitashima, Maleeda Wagner-Holmes, Annie Birnie, and Ari Mayer for being the best friends a girl could have, and for promising that Madeline will know everything about her mother.

Thanks to Rachel Monas for not questioning my sanity and for keeping my baby girl safe from pinching fingers, sadistic children, camels, horses, and elephants.

Thanks to Kate Coyne for her psychic abilities and the Bob Ross painting.

Thanks to Wesley Siemers for the morning greetings and for keeping her updated.

Extra thanks to Brooke Gullikson for patience, love, and understanding.

For inspiration while I was writing: Derek and Kurt (for the Derek Tape), Jeff Mangum and Neutral Milk Hotel, J. Tillman, PJ Harvey, Liz Phair, The National, Ariel Pink, Bon Iver, WHY?, Silver Jews, Sun Kil Moon, Pavement, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire, Swearing at Motorists, Vic Chesnutt, Paul Westerberg and the Replacements, Eazy-E, Will Oldham, Jeff Tweedy and Wilco, Gil Scott-Heron, Ryan Adams, Glen Campbell, Richard Buckner, Iron & Wine, the Hold Steady, John Coltrane, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Akumal, Kathmandu, Pashupatinath, the Bagmati River, Fatehpur Sikri, Jaipur, Agra, Paris, Robert Bingham, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Philip Levine, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and especially Mark Kozelek, Yoni Wolf, and David Berman for your kindness and generosity in letting me use your words.

Limitless gratitude and love to the Logelin, Shoberg, Werner, Hedstrom, Bensman, Lee, and Goodman families, Becky Werner, Ray and Pauline Logelin, Adam, Holly, and Ava Shoberg, Tina, Travis, and Trevor Metz, Heather McKinley, Alex, Taylor, and David Logelin, Nick and Molly Logelin, Josh, Jane, and Isla McKinley, Tom and Bev Logelin, Sara and Rodney Shoberg, and Tom, Candee, and Deb Goodman.

Most important, I want to thank Elizabeth Goodman-​Logelin and Madeline Elizabeth Logelin for making me who I am today.

Photographs

Liz and me at a concert in Minneapolis the summer after we graduated from high school. July 16, 1996.

The two of us on a hike outside of Whistler, Canada. June 25, 2003.

Liz and me celebrating New Year’s Eve in downtown Los Angeles. December 31, 2003.

Liz on a street corner in New York City. April 3, 2004.

Liz in front of the temple where I proposed at Durbar Square, Kathmandu, Nepal. June 19, 2004.

Maddy and me in front of the temple where I proposed at Durbar Square, Kathmandu, Nepal. November 9, 2009.

The two of us at our wedding rehearsal at the Calhoun Beach Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota. August 12, 2005.

Liz at a market in Greece during our honeymoon. August 20, 2005.

Liz and me at the Taj Mahal, Agra, India. May 13, 2006.

Maddy and me at the Taj Mahal, Agra, India. November 5, 2009.

Liz at a rest stop outside of Santa Barbara, California, on our first wedding anniversary. August 13, 2006.

Maddy and me at a rest stop outside of Santa Barbara, California, the day before what would have been my fourth wedding anniversary. August 12, 2010.

The two of us celebrating New Year’s Eve in Bangalore, India, during my second stint living there. December 31, 2006.

Liz and me ready to board the train in Peru. June 13, 2007.

Maddy out for dinner in Bangalore, India. October 16, 2009.

In Durbar Square, Kathmandu, Nepal. November 9, 2009.

Maddy in Akumal, Mexico, during one of our annual