Table of Contents
Part 1 Hope
1 Bacon and Ice Cream 3
2 Tapioca and Kittens 10
3 We Were Speeding; We Were Spoiled 19
4 Days, Nights, Years in a Diner 26
5 Memories of a Meatloaf 35
6 The Sound of Harleys 43
7 The Full Boar 49
Part 2 Unity
8 It Better Be Blue 57
9 Making a Mother 65
10 Singing for Our Supper 73
11 Sawdust and Shiny Floors 81
12 Amaranth and Fried Chicken 95
13 Vinalhaven 108
14 Layers of Angst 116
Part 3 Prospect
15 The Triangle Made of Bricks 123
16 The Clinking of Glasses, the Flicker of Candles 134
17 Physical, Mental, Emotional 141
18 Kicking, Clawing, Falling 150
19 Nineteen Steps 162
20 Seventy-two 175
21 Time to Go, Girl 182
Part 4 Liberty
22 A Gray Day in Maine 195
23 Who Saved Who? 201
24 To the Bat Cave 206
25 Bittersweet Breakup Brownies 215
26 Potholes and Pavement 224
Part 5 Freedom
27 Leaves of Three 243
28 Take Me Back 251
29 Starting from Scratch 256
30 Women of Waldo 262
31 The Awakening of a Woman 271
32 A House the Color of Strawberries 277
33 There's No Place Like Home 283
Acknowledgments 291