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Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction It’s Kate Elinore Friedman-Siegel, Bitch Because Cancer Green Eggs and Sperm My First Fake ID I Am Woman “Sing Out, Louise!” The Pound Diaries Stalking 101 Dr. Who (Ha) Do Not Open Unless You Want to Cry Happy Birthday, Spawn! Keeping Up with the Friedman-Siegels Listen to Your Mother The Castrator Hurricane Kim Rabbi Hunting Buff Boys #CrazyJewishMom Acknowledgments Credits About the Author Introduction When my mother was twenty-five years old, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a television director. She hitched a ride to Hollywood with no idea how to drive, no job, and no place to live (unless you count the floor of a garage in West Hollywood without direct access to plumbing or heat). She was ultimately successful, even nominated for a directing Emmy, but in the early days, she had no money and wrote porn scripts to pay the rent. When asked about that time in her life, she always remembers it proudly: “Oh, honey, it was fabulous! So, I wrote a few pornos? You do what you have to, and it was fun!” Incidentally, if anyone reading this is in possession......