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Love and Leftovers

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love
&
leftovers

a novel in verse

sarah tregay

Dedication
For high school Leftovers everywhere

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

 

Part One - DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE

    
My Family’s Summerhouse

    
The Breakup

    
Long Shot

    
An Explanation

    
Lonely

    
Since the Breakup

    
Saturday at the Laundromat

    
Every Time Dad Calls and Mom Answers

    
I Want to Ask Dad Questions Too

    
The First Day of School

    
The Second Day of School

    
Talk about Accents

    
The Teachers Hate

    
“Martha Iris?”

    
I Know I Shouldn’t Put People in Boxes

    
Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 1:

    
Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 2:

    
Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 3:

    
Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 4:

    
Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 5:

    
Things I Left Behind in Boise, Poem 6:

    
When My Mother Takes an Ambien

    
The Worst Thing I Have Ever Done

    
The Best Thing Linus Ever Did

    
Driver’s License Daydreams

    
The Boat

    
I Don’t Like Lobster Anyway

    
Dominoes

    
Half-and-Half

    
Oyster River High School

    
The Leftover Lovers YouTube Performance #1

    
I Know I Like Him

    
A Feeling Like Falling

    
If Only We Could Be Together

    
America Runs on Dunkin’

    
Give Me a Break, Sam

    
Talking to Linus Is Depressing

    
BFF

    
HOME Is a Four-Letter Word

    
September 14–11:45 P.M.

    
Speaking of Good-Looking Guys

    
Thank God for Football

    
I Don’t Have a Dress to Wear

    
The Perfect Dress

    
J.D. Picks Me Up

    
Homecoming at OR

    
October 5–11:54 P.M.

    
I Close Mom’s Computer

    
Middle-of-the-Night Daydreams

    
Dinner

    
When I Was Little

    
When Dad Calls and I Answer

    
“You Cut Your Hair?”

    
Hairapy

    
Until

    
Family Hairstory

    
My Relatives Are Like Grapes on a Vine

    
Money

    
The Conversation

    
October 11–11:30 P.M.

    
Student Housing

    
A Bath at Last

    
I’ll Be Brief

    
Closing Camp

    
Bedtime

    
The Leftover Lovers YouTube Performance #2

    
What I Want to Do

    
A Package from Katie

    
October 27–12:02 A.M.

    
No One to Clink Glasses With

    
Katie Rants on the Phone

    
Regret

    
Frat Boys

    
Clothes

    
I Love Pizza

    
Motherly Advice for the Teenage Soul

    
Treats

    
Insight

    
My Birthday

    
Birthday Presents

    
At 3:20 That Afternoon Everyone Remembers

    
More Birthday Presents

    
Three Gifts Are in Blue-and-White Priority Mail Boxes

    
After Greta and Arthur Kiss Me Good Night

    
My Wish

    
After the Guests Have Gone

    
Kissing J.D.

    
Tomorrow, Tomorrow

    
I Inherited It

    
Would He Tell Me?

    
Procrastination

    
Maybe

    
The End

    
I Told My Mother

    
Now

    
The Next Best Thing to a Security Blanket

    
Morning

    
Peeking from Behind My Locker Door

    
I Take the Cup of Coffee

    
My Sweaters Arrive Parcel Post

    
I Open the Envelope Dad Sent

    
I Crumple It Up

    
Back to the Boxes

    
I Explain

    
Lambasted

    
Katie, You Don’t Understand

    
It Was Dumb. I Know.

    
What Best Friends Are For

    
Trapped

    
Home from School (Almost)

    
Change Is Good

    
I Try Making Friends

    
A Silent Thank-you Note

    
November 18–11:33 P.M.

    
Questions

    
Chasing Boys

    
Answering Machine Message from Linus

    
Baking Pies for Thanksgiving

    
Thanksgiving at Aunt Greta’s

    
Like Clockwork

    
Blue Cafeteria Trays

    
How I Learned that the Cutest Jock at OR Had a Crush

    
S’mores

    
I Don’t Know Who Started It

    
Writer’s Block

    
J.D. and I

    
News to Me

    
In the Aftermath of Operation Girlfriend Defreak

    
3.1 Miles of Conversation

    
Megan

    
Telling Truths

    
Nickname

    
Opportunity Knocks

    
Overactive Imagination

    
Kissing as a Recreational Sport

    
Answering Machine Message from Dad

    
Because I Love Her

    
Memory

    
Illness

    
At the Bagel Shop

    
At the Laundromat

    
Change of Season

    
Friends with Benefits

    
Thank God

    
My Mother Is Wrong

    
Overheard

    
J.D. Knows to Avoid the Potholes

    
“Hi, Daddy!”

    
My Father Wraps Me in His Long Arms

    
Dad Doesn’t Lecture Me

    
Back at Our Apartment

    
Funny

    
In the Aftermath of Operation Sedate My Mother

    
Protesting

    
Escort

    
How I Got to the Bottom of Things

    
Realization

    
December 22–8:32 P.M.

    
My Good-byes

    
Holidaze

    
Christmas Dinner

    
Comfort

    
Back to Bed

    
In Bed

    
“I Am.”

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