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Document Outline
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication Page
Epigraph Page
Contents Chapter One: Jewelling the Elephant
Chapter Two: The Noones
Chapter Three: Life Isn't Radio
Chapter Four: Roughhousing
Chapter Five: Semaphore
Chapter Six: Wayne
Chapter Seven: A Guy Thing
Chapter Eight: Don't Even go There
Chapter Nine: More than Elephants
Chapter Ten: The Monkey Wrench
Chapter Eleven: A Little Like God
Chapter Twelve: Laura
Chapter Thirteen: Room for Disillusionment
Chapter Fourteen: Stranger and Stranger
Chapter Fifteen: Room Tone
Chapter Sixteen: The Sandbar
Chapter Seventeen: Just Turn the Page
Chapter Eighteen: A Convenient Pseudonym
Chapter Nineteen: Man's Country
Chapter Twenty: The Shock of Recognition
Chapter Twenty-One: Family Things
Chapter Twenty-Two: Snow Blindness
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Eleventh Hour
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Idea of Him
Chapter Twenty-Five: Giving Up the Ghost
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Boo Daddy
Chapter Twenty-Seven: No Epiphanies
Chapter Twenty-Eight: My Old Room
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Also by Armistead Maupin
Credits
Copyright Notice
About the Publisher
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