Table of Contents
Author's Note xiii
Introduction: Welcome to Freeville 1
Chapter 1 We Played with Matches 9
Chapter 2 Romance: A Brief History 22
Chapter 3 Dating Blindly 32
Chapter 4 Night of the Chipmunk Hands 39
Chapter 5 Journeys End in Lovers Meeting 45
Chapter 6 Meeting Mr. Darcy 49
Chapter 7 The Antidote for Longing 60
Chapter 8 Let Me Get My Puppets 67
Chapter 9 Life Renovation Offer 73
Chapter 10 The Grenade in the Kitchen 75
Chapter 11 Paying the Piper 83
Chapter 12 We Did 94
Chapter 13 The Powdered Wife 103
Chapter 14 Real Housewives 112
Chapter 15 All the Single Ladies 116
Chapter 16 What the Dog Did 121
Chapter 17 We Abide 128
Chapter 18 Heroic Measures 140
Chapter 19 The Fallacy of Closure 150
Chapter 20 The Rising Tide of Things 160
Chapter 21 Does It Spark Joy? 167
Chapter 22 Imperfect Pitch 172
Chapter 23 Counting Sheep 180
Chapter 24 How to Use a Saw 188
Chapter 25 Next of Kin 195
Chapter 26 Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things 206
Chapter 27 Mother's Day 218
Acknowledgments 223
