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CHAPTER 2: AUBERGINES, FOYERS, AND THE HORSE WHO LIVES UPSTAIRS.

CHAPTER 3: ASTRID JONES SENDS HER LOVE. FROM A PICNIC TABLE.

CHAPTER 4: CLAIRE NEVER QUITS.

CHAPTER 5: I WORK WEEKENDS.

CHAPTER 6: DO WHAT FEELS RIGHT.

CHAPTER 7: ASTRID TO HOME PLANET: PLEASE RESCUE ME.

CHAPTER 8: MOO.

CHAPTER 9: HOMECOMING FRIDAY IS JIGGLY.

CHAPTER 10: I DO NOT LIKE THE PLAN.

CHAPTER 11: IT IS
WAY
TOO EASY TO GET INTO ATLANTIS.

CHAPTER 12: TURNS OUT ASTRID JONES IS A ROBOT.

CHAPTER 13: ASTRID JONES JUST ISN’T READY YET, OKAY?

CHAPTER 14: I THINK THE RACCOONS NOW HAVE DYSENTERY.

CHAPTER 15: THE 135.

CHAPTER 16: AM I WEARING A “BE PUSHY WITH ME” SIGN?

CHAPTER 17: WE HEAR THINGS.

CHAPTER 18: THE BIG BANG.

CHAPTER 19: THIS IS NOT POLITE DINNER CONVERSATION.

CHAPTER 20: CONFESSIONS OF A DANCING QUEEN.

CHAPTER 21: LIFE OFF THE POT IS QUIET.

CHAPTER 22: MY NAME IS CLAIRE, AND I’LL BE YOUR PILOT TODAY.

CHAPTER 23: JEFF THE LEG JIGGLER TALKS, TOO.

CHAPTER 24: I AM A PUSHOVER. THAT’S WHY THIS SHIT HAPPENS TO ME.

CHAPTER 25: WELCOME ABOARD FLIGHT ATLANTIS.

CHAPTER 26: OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT.

CHAPTER 27: OHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT PART TWO.

CHAPTER 28: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

CHAPTER 29: THIS IS NOT HOW I EXPECTED IT TO UNFOLD.

CHAPTER 30: CLAIRE MAKES SHADOWS.

CHAPTER 31: I WAS NOT IMAGINING THE GOSSIP FOG.

CHAPTER 32: IT ONLY GETS WORSE, YOU KNOW.

CHAPTER 33: NOTHING MATTERS.

CHAPTER 34: IRON THIS.

CHAPTER 35: YOU CAN IRON THE CURTAINS STRAIGHT.

CHAPTER 36: FRIDAY IS JUST GROSS.

CHAPTER 37: I USED TO LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING ON WEEKENDS.

CHAPTER 38: WHAT WOULD SOCRATES DO?

CHAPTER 39: IN WHICH ASTRID JONES FINALLY LOSES IT.

CHAPTER 40: I CAN’T DECIDE IF I WANT HIM TO DRIVE SLOWER OR FASTER.

CHAPTER 41: CAN YOU SAY
AWKWARD
?

CHAPTER 42: THE SOCRATES PROJECT.

CHAPTER 43: THANKSGIVING IS NOT A DIRTY WORD.

CHAPTER 44: MOTION
IS
POSSIBLE.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EARLY PRAISE FOR ASK THE PASSENGERS

COPYRIGHT

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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