Spooning

by Darri Stephens

  Acknowledgments

  To our literary angels:

  Kara Cesare, Wendy Sherman, and Ann Campbell.

  Thank you for the divine insight.

  To our literary muses:

  Erin DeSales Bauer

  Joanna Stephens

  Lisa Fleming

  Ryanne Gallagher

  Sarah Clark

  Emily Clark

  Kristen Miller

  Margaret Buonanno Lynch

  Melisa Tezanos

  The Georgetown girls of

  3318 Prospect Street & 3607 N Street

  The Vandy girls

  Keep the drama alive!

  Darri Stephens and Megan DeSales are veteran New Yorkers and best friends. Darri is a public school teacher with degrees from Georgetown and Harvard, and was formerly a producer at Martha Stewart/OmniMedia. Megan graduated from Vanderbilt University and is a senior producer at MTV News. Darri currently lives in Los Angeles, and Megan lives in New York City.

  PUBLISHED BY BROADWAY BOOKS

  Copyright © 2006 by DARROW STEPHENS AND MEGAN DESALES

  All Rights Reserved

  Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of

  The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York

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  BROADWAY BOOKS and its logo, a letter B bisected on the diagonal, are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses,

  organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the

  authors' imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual

  persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the Library of Congress

  eISBN: 978-0-307-49126-8

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