Table of Contents
Preface xv
Chapter 1 Before I Had Any Names 1
Chapter 2 When Daddy First Met His Little Princess 9
Chapter 3 Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban 13
Chapter 4 Wait, But Do You Have a Mom? 19
Chapter 5 Oatmeal Faces and Trips to Las Vegas 31
Chapter 6 Some People Have Security Blankets. I Have Lists. 37
Chapter 7 One Percent 43
Chapter 8 It's Time to Pop the Question 53
Chapter 9 A Government Worker and a Gift from God 59
Chapter 10 Death Is Ridiculously Messy 65
Chapter 11 The Trauma That Is Being Thirteen 71
Chapter 12 Mistakes Aren't Irreversible 77
Chapter 13 Here Come the Grooms 81
Chapter 14 Dreams, Teleprompters, and Marie Antoinette 89
Chapter 15 I Think We May Need to Do a Little Re-evaluation 99
Chapter 16 Nothing Is Black and White 111
Chapter 17 What's New and Shiny and Terrified All Over? 119
Chapter 18 No, You May Not Have a Bite of My Friendship Pie 127
Chapter 19 The Burden of Virginity 137
Chapter 20 Surprising Angels 145
Chapter 21 Never Serve Thanksgiving Dinner All on One Plate 157
Chapter 22 The Magical Story of a Prison Visiting Room 163
Chapter 23 The Other Side 171
Chapter 24 Well, Hello There, Mr. Unicorn! 179
Chapter 25 Ho Ho Ho 197
Chapter 26 Heilige Bim Bam 205
Chapter 27 Forever and Then Some 211
Chapter 28 I Love You to the Sun and the Moon and Back 221
Epilogue 229
Acknowledgments 233
About the Author 237