There are no bound oxygen isotopes past N = 16 while bound fluorine isotopes extend out to at least N = 22. Understanding the change in nuclear structure that underlies this difference has been the focus of considerable theoretical work. This change has been attributed to the spin-isospin component of the nucleon-nucleon force [1] which results in a larger energy gap between the ν(1s 1/2 ) and ν(0d 3/2 ) orbitals in oxygen isotopes [2]. At the same time, the gap between the ν(0d 3/2 ) orbital and the pf shell decreases as the number of protons increases from Z = 8 to Z = 14 [3]. While the anomaly in the location of the oxygen dripline is not reproduced by shell-model calculations based on microscopic two-nucleon forces, it was recently demonstrated that the inclusion of three-nucleon forces provides a microscopic explanation [4]. The smaller shell gap enhances the possibility for cross-shell excitations. The Monte Carlo shell model with SDPF-M effective interactions (MCSM), which includes cross-shell excitations [5,6], reproduces data in the region of the "island of inversion" [7]. This region of the nuclear chart includes neutron-rich Ne, Na, and Mg nuclei whose low-lying structure is dominated by neutron particle-hole excitations across the N = 20 shell gap ( [7,8] and references therein).Indications for cross-shell excitations have also been observed in neutron-rich fluorine isotopes [9]. While the first *