Passages from Rajani LaRocca's Red, White, and Whole are read in this episode. Corin Wiser's Matters of the Heart: A Guide to Living and Loving Your Teen Years is also mentioned. Elsie was one of my roommate's names that I couldn't think of when I recorded this episode! She was the one who cut her hand and had to go to the hospital during the summer of '88 when I lived in Taipei, Taiwan.
