“I always believed I was more than the things that had happened to me, or that I had done, or that I hoped to do.  Deep down, I believed I was more than that.  I believed an essential part of me, a core part of me, was immune to the forces of life.  I believed that the part of me that was truly me would remain forever unchanged, no matter what.  Looking back, I realize now how naïve I was. Years”