Acknowledgments -- Does Everything Have to Mean Something? -- Here I Am -- Hello, I'm Irving Shuman -- While You Were Out -- Alligators May Be Present -- A Change in Altitude -- Meet the Wood Stork -- Someday You'll Talk about Me Like This -- Think of How Lucky We Are -- We've Come All This Way -- Are You Talking to Everybody, or Just to a Few People? -- I Heard the Heartbeat -- The Defender of Weak and Victimized Pooches -- Stop Calling Me Shuman, Son -- Did You Think I Wouldn't Know You . . . -- This Your Mother Knows Nothing Of -- A Vision of Feathers.