Strayed chose her own last name: “Nothing fit until one day when the word strayed came into my mind. Immediately, I looked it up in the dictionary and knew it was mine...: to wander from the proper path, to deviate from the direct course, to be lost, to become wild, to be without a mother or father, to be without a home, to move about aimlessly in search of something, to diverge or digress” (p. 96). Did she choose well? What did you think when you learned she had assigned this word to herself— that it was no coincidence?
the word strayed came into my mind. Immediately, I looked it up in the
dictionary and knew it was mine...: to wander from the proper path, to
deviate from the direct course, to be lost, to become wild, to be without a
mother or father, to be without a home, to move about aimlessly in search
of something, to diverge or digress” (p. 96). Did she choose well? What
did you think when you learned she had assigned this word to herself—
that it was no coincidence?