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PRELUDE.........................................................................xiiiThe Project (An Existentially Authentic Intention)..............................xiiiFireflies At Dawn...............................................................xviiDeliverance.....................................................................xviiiCome My Children................................................................2About the Organization of These Pieces..........................................3Mother Lines....................................................................9Primary Lesson..................................................................9Timing..........................................................................10Elementary, My Dear.............................................................11Ginger..........................................................................12Thoughts At Fourteen In The Grocery Aisle.......................................13Because of Mary Jo..............................................................14Survivor........................................................................15Our Wakefast....................................................................16Philosophy 101..................................................................17o little flower.................................................................19Daily Grammar...................................................................20Editing Room....................................................................21Break Ground....................................................................22Rake And Rumpus.................................................................23The Common Cold.................................................................24Sometimes We Think..............................................................25Somewhere In Indiana............................................................26Soothing Agony..................................................................27Hindsight.......................................................................28Some Break......................................................................29Jawbreakers.....................................................................30Communion Service...............................................................31To Tell Of Prodigy In 1957......................................................32That War That Peace............................................................34Sometimes To Rhyme..............................................................35Peepers.........................................................................36Buddies.........................................................................36About this Book.................................................................39Friends.........................................................................47This Lottery....................................................................47Epiphany........................................................................48It Happened (Around 1964).......................................................50The Way Home....................................................................51We Must Ever Cry................................................................52Windblown.......................................................................53The Vow Sounds..................................................................54The Penguin Passes By...........................................................55The Sermon on the Can Full of Could.............................................56Dads Are Not Perfect, But.......................................................58Surgeons........................................................................60Nothing Fancy...................................................................61Proclamation....................................................................63Questern's Miracle..............................................................64Striptease......................................................................65Sleuther........................................................................66Of Tweetie, A Parakeet..........................................................67Garage Sale Counsel.............................................................69Oh, My Son......................................................................70Daughter Talk...................................................................72Aliens..........................................................................73Critics.........................................................................75Something About the "Go" in Chicago.............................................78Breaking Away...................................................................80Primitive Ritual................................................................81Return of the Mountaineer.......................................................84Our Song........................................................................86Natural Remedy..................................................................86About the Author................................................................89Players.........................................................................101Fishing Deep....................................................................101An After Eden...................................................................102The Fisherman...................................................................103Thunderdew......................................................................104Of Wandlessness.................................................................105Whatever It Is..................................................................106The Feeding.....................................................................110Bottomline: The Art of Having a Period..........................................112Childrunning (Karen's Song).....................................................113Speaking for One Who Could Not..................................................114Query...........................................................................115A Sentence......................................................................116Sleep...........................................................................117Of That Something There Is That Moves The World.................................118Muck............................................................................119Extreme Roulette................................................................121Fledgling.......................................................................122A Parents Candlelighting Memorial...............................................123Agonistes.......................................................................124Harmonics.......................................................................125That Glory As Yet Unsung........................................................126Donor Secret....................................................................127About The Abouts................................................................131Venture Capital.................................................................137Rolling Over....................................................................137What...