Author's Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book
Chapter One: I'm a Big Sister Now
Chapter Two: My Duck is Blind
Chapter Three: The Case of the Disappearing Beagle
Chapter Four: Kill the Bastards: A Brief Season on the Wrestling Team
Chapter Five: When Funnel Cake was Manna
Chapter Six: A Pencil Saves the Day
Chapter Seven: First Dance
Chapter Eight: I Kissed the Purple Boy
Chapter Nine: The Bagel Machine and Other Dangerous Lies
Chapter Ten: Let the Games Begin
Chapter Eleven: There's No Place like Home
Chapter Twelve: Hitting the Slopes, Literally
Chapter Thirteen: My Brother is a Quaalude
Chapter Fourteen: How I Met My Beshert on the Dance Floor
Chapter Fifteen: Bliss is Fleeting
Chapter Sixteen: Big Sister Radar Goes on High Alert
Chapter Seventeen: The Night of Broken Glass
Chapter Eighteen: The Phone Call That Changes Everything
Chapter Nineteen: This is Not a Dream
Chapter Twenty: Causing Mr. Goldstein to Be Late for His Own Funeral
Chapter Twenty-One: Sitting Shiva and Eating Ten Pounds of Rugelach
Chapter Twenty-Two: Visiting the Sunshine State
Chapter Twenty-Three: My Off-Broadway Debut into the Land of the Living
Chapter Twenty-Four: Forest Bathing For a Grieving Mother
Chapter Twenty-Five: Dad Wins the Stem Cell Lottery
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Most Honest Conversations I Ever Had
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Buy Low, Cell High and Other Corny Antics
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Visiting Day: It's Nice to be Nice, and Hitting the Jackpot is Even Nicer Still
Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Boy Who Blessed the Rabbi
Chapter Thirty: What to Do When Your World Stops
Chapter Thirty-One: The Miracle Child
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Calling on the Beach
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Healing Power of an Ice-Cream Cone with Sprinkles
Chapter Thirty-Four: Fifteen Brand New Harry Potter Books
Chapter Thirty-Five: Sibling Bereavement Support Group from Hell
Chapter Thirty-Six: So You Shall
Chapter Thirty-Seven: How Soaringwords Was Born or What I Did When No One Was
Ill or Died
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Stumbling upon Positive Psychology on the Escalator
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Standing Tall
Chapter Forty: Buddha Baby
Chapter Forty-One: Winning the Global Growing with Technology Award
Chapter Forty-Two: How Gabby Stole My Heart
Chapter Forty-Three: Life Shards
Chapter Forty-Four: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Floats and Second Helpings
Chapter Forty-Five: The Beginning of the End
Chapter Forty-Six: A Long Nine Years
Chapter Forty-Seven: The Surge
Chapter Forty-Eight: A Front-Row Seat to Your Eulogy
Chapter Forty-Nine: Soaring Cardinals and Other Hugs From the Universe
Chapter Fifty: SOARING Into Strength
Acknowledgments
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