The Most Fun We Ever Had

, my sounding board, my comedic relief, my moral compass and the best man I’ve ever known. I go through life with belief in good things because I came from him. I miss him infinitely and love him even more.

Last, and most, always: this book is for my dad. Tony Lombardo made this world make sense, and it astounds me daily that it continues to spin, dimmed, without him in it. He was, and remains, my safety

“The next time you meet a funny woman, you laugh at her jokes, okay, Conrad?”

A marathon of instability and hair products.

Maybe normalcy skipped a generation, like baldness.

Nobody was who they appeared to be; everybody was struggling

Lord, it’s the scariest thing in the world, our mortality, isn’t it?

Babies were different, and she wanted one, a tiny perfect person, the most lasting tie to the world you could possibly ask for

Babies were different, and she wanted one, a tiny perfect person, the most lasting tie to the world you could possibly ask

Find yourself a man who likes to hold babies, she’d said to Liza once. It’s a sign of good character.