OFF PAGE: Accidentally on Purpose with Mary Pols June 5, 2008

When Mary Pols agrees to go for a quick drink with a friend, she has no idea that this seemingly innocuous night will change her life forever. A thirty-nine-year-old independent, intellectual film critic, she unexpectedly meets Mattunemployed and ten years her juniordefinitely not boyfriend material. But after a few drinks and some flirtatious banter she finds herself heading back to his place. In Accidentally On Purposea real-life version of the hit comedy Knocked UpPols takes the reader along for her unexpected adventure into parenthood. To Marys amazement, family and friends shower her with unconditional support and Matta seemingly aimless twenty-somethingresponds with tenderness as he morphs into the role of loving and caring father. Pols takes the reader on a journey from the first drunken night to the first diaper change and learns that sometimes the best things in life are not planned.

Mary Pols is a film critic for several Bay Area papers, including the Contra-Costa Times and Oakland Tribune. She was a Knight Fellow at Stanford in 2005-2006 and teaches at UC Berkeley.

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