This book is a love letter to my family. It’s about the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments –the ones we want to pretend never happened –are the very same moments that make us who we are today.
-- Jenny Lawson (Untitled Introduction paragraph n/a)

Importance: Prior to the Introduction, Jenny Lawson provides an untitled preface that explains the purpose of the book, which is to write a love letter to her family. It is her way of saying thank you to them for teaching her lessons in life.In the untitled preface, she also tells the theme of the book which is that human moments make people who they are in life. This was the most important lesson that her family taught her. It is the one for which she is most grateful.

I’ve reserved the very best stories of my life for this book… to celebrate the strange, and to give thanks...
-- Jenny Lawson (Untitled Introduction paragraph n/a)