Lilah's List. Robyn Amos

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      Lilah’s List

      Robyn Amos

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      Lilah’s List is for my dear friends Judy Fitzwater and Pat Gagne, and my husband, John Pope. Without them, I never would have gotten through this book.

      Contents

      Lilah’s List

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Chapter 20

      Chapter 21

      Chapter 22

      Chapter 23

      Chapter 24

      Chapter 25

      Epilogue

      Lilah’s List

      1. Date Reggie Martin

      8. Shake hands with someone famous

      12. Get a professional makeover

      13. Learn to knit

      16. Sing at a karaoke bar

      19. Eat escargot

      21. Visit a fortune-teller

      25. Ride a mechanical bull

      26. Throw a wild party

      27. Get a tattoo

      28. Kiss a stranger

      29. Ride a motorcycle

      30. Crash a party

      31. Do something scandalous

      32. Protest for a worthy cause

      33. Leave a $100 tip

      35. Practice a random act of kindness

      38. Have multiple orgasms

      41. Have 15 minutes of fame

      42. Go out in public with no underwear

      43. Fly first-class

      44. Buy something without reading the price tag

      45. Spend an entire day in bed

      46. Own an expensive designer dress

      47. Drink Cristal champagne straight from the bottle

      49. Climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty

      50. Ice skate at Rockefeller Center

      Chapter 1

      Multiple orgasms were among the many things she wasn’t going to get to experience before turning thirty, Lilah Banks decided as she stared at her well-worn pink stationery. She hadn’t seen her list since college graduation in 1999.

      That day she’d crossed off fall in love and neatly tucked The List inside her grandmother’s antique jewelry box. The jewelry box had been packed up along with her other college memories and had landed in the attic of the house she’d shared with her husband Chuck.

      Until today, that box had remained sealed like Pandora’s box. When Lilah had opened it, all of her unfulfilled hopes and dreams had tumbled out with her American University sweatshirt and a ton of old photos.

      Lilah had been a good girl and followed the rules. She’d married her college sweetheart, lost her virginity on her wedding night and perfectly balanced her career in real estate with her duties as a domestic goddess. Yet here she was divorced after only six years of marriage.

      She smoothed her hand over The List, studying the handwriting of a sixteen-year-old girl as it transformed into that of a young woman in her twenties.

      At sixteen she’d wanted to date Reggie Martin—never happened. At eighteen, rebelling against her goody-two-shoes image, she added visit a nude beach to The List—that did happen: spring break 1997. At twenty, the awakening of her social consciousness, she’d wanted to protest a worthy cause—but never did. And at twenty-one, the awakening of her sexual consciousness, came the thing about multiple orgasms.

      Lilah shook her head. A lot of really fun things were still unchecked, and her thirtieth birthday was only three weeks away.

      “So much for that.” She dropped The List to the floor and dug back into the box. She pulled out a framed photo of her kissing Chuck at the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity cookout senior year.

      Saving the frame, she tossed the photo into the waste bin at her right. Her world had been so different then.

      At this point in her life she’d expected to be preparing for motherhood instead of readjusting to single life. She should have been remodeling their fabulous three-story suburban home instead of unpacking her Georgetown condo after three months of living out of boxes.

      The only part of her life that had stayed on track was her career. As a real estate agent she was at the top of her game, making more money than she knew how