Introduction : onlies, connect
Singular sensations : childhood
The hotline / Alissa Quart
Postcards to myself / Peter Terzian
I am my own grandpa / Molly Jong-Fast
Imaginary enemies / Sarah Towers
Becoming an only child / Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
We are...family : significant others and friends
Triangulation : a love story / Deborah Siegel
Laundry distance / Lynn Harris
Odd numbers / Thomas Beller
Separation and the single girl / Sara Reistad-Long
Blood of my blood / Rebecca Walker
Dodging Laurie / Daphne Uviller
A sib for junior? : parenting
Letter to my second child / John Hodgman
My Jane / Peter Ho Davies
Succumbing to two / Amy Richards
Mother of two / Janice Nimura
Minority report / Judith Thurman
Still only after all these years : tables turned
The forest of memory / Kathryn Harrison
A pair of onlys / Alysia Abbott
New Year's Eve, 1997 / Teller.