You Have To Kiss a Lot of Frogs. Laurie Graff

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      You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs

      Laurie Graff

      For my mother,

       Lonnie and for my brother, Steve

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Thank you to…

      All the family members, friends, peers and people who have inspired and encouraged me. You know who you are!

      Margaret Marbury at Red Dress Ink for picking me out of the slush pile and saying “yes,” and the RDI committee in New York, Toronto and the U.K. for agreeing with her.

      My editor, Melissa Jeglinski, who is a joy to work with. Who helped me create a road map for Karrie Kline. Who has great ideas, and great taste in restaurants!

      The entire RDI team for their wonderful and creative work on all aspects of this book, and special thanks to Zareen Jaffery for her help.

      Robert Youdelman, Danielle Forte and Dianne Jude for their terrific work, and Mark Pedowitz for pointing me in that direction.

      Nancy Kelton whose class, Writing from Your Personal Experience, started something. The “Los Angeles Writer’s Bloc” and “The WorkShop Theater Company.”

      Lisa Forman and Ruth Kreitzman for pushing me to write.

      Jill Cohen for the serendipitous act that led to publishing this book!

      Jamie Callan for oh so much, for everything!

      Nancy Giles for the delicious brainstorms!

      Ellen Byron, Steve Keyes and Matt Graff for support from the beginning.

      Stewart Zuckerbrod, Tracy Tofte, Sandy Eisenberg, Pam Clifford and Susan Banerjee for always listening to me read. Phyllis Heller for ideas. Mary Gordon Murray for living through the rewrite process with me, and Marlene Kaplan who’s going in the white limo!

      And in memory of David Stenstrom who was the first one to say, “Laurie, you should be writing this down.”

      CONTENTS

      You Have to Kiss a Lot of Frogs

      April Fools’ Day

      Hell’s Kitchen, NYC 2003

      Wake Me When We Get There

      Flashback—Easter Week

      Brooklyn, NY 1969

      Nottingham Forest

      Memorial Day Weekend

      The Catskills, Upstate NY 1988

      David’s Dad

      Rosh Hashana

      Central Park West, NYC 1988

      Whose Party Is This Anyway?

      Daylight Saving Time Ends

      Grand Central Station, NYC 1989

      A Clue in Time Saves Nine

      Tisha B’av

      Greenwich Village, NYC 1990

      Roman Holiday

      My Birthday

      Gramercy Park, NYC 1991

      My Worst Date…Almost

      New Year’s Day

      Chelsea, NYC 1992

      The Clan of the Cab Bears

      Passover

      Port Authority, NYC 1992

      Wherefore Art Thou?

      Valentine’s Day

      Upper East Side, NYC 1994

      That’s All, Folks

      An Hour Later

      Ten Blocks North, NYC 1994

      Joy to the World

      Flashback—Last Christmas

      Charlottesville, VA 1993

      That’s Really All

      Present—Fifteen Minutes Later

      Back in the Elevator, NYC 1994

      The Truth About Men and Astrology

      Flag Day

      The Upper West Side, NYC 1994

      From the Top

      Election Day

      The Theater District, NYC 1994

      Eating out of His Hand

      Veterans’ Day

      Soho, NYC 1994

      Feast Your Eyes

      Twenty Minutes Later

      Fifth Avenue, NYC 1994

      The Lightbulb at the End of the Tunnel

      Three Months After That

      Midtown, NYC 1995

      Cheesecake Delight

      Labor Day

      The Great Lawn, NYC 1995

      Life in the Fast Lane

      First Day of Autumn

      Los Angeles, CA 1995

      The Lion’s Share

      Groundhog Day

      West L.A., CA 1996

      What’s the Big Deal?

      Hanukkah

      Studio City, CA 1996

      The Call of the Wild

      Mother’s Day

      Beverly Hills, CA 1997

      Weight-Listed