Table of Contents
Things I Wrote About When I Was Eight........................... 7
Closer to Nine..................................................................... 11
My Birthday Observed.....................................................25
More Bad Things................................................................ 41
All of a Sudden...................................................................57
The Signal........................................................................... 71
The Recovery Room.......................................................... 79
Out With a Smash..............................................................87
Officially Nine..................................................................105
Happy Birthday................................................................123
My Birthday Wish.............................................................137
