"....life events do pass through me tangentially and have not destroyed me."
severe illness, and I know how it feels to experience a miracle. I know about children’s health problem, and I know what it takes to fight for every small victory — my son was born cross-eyed and with farsightedness. Moreover, he only had five percent vision in his left eye and twenty percent in his right eye. Each five percent improvement in vision produced tears of happiness for me, and today my son doesn’t even wear glasses, I know what it’s like to have your parents’ go through a divorce and end up taking care of yourself from the age of three. I know what it’s like to have a mother addicted to alcohol, and I know how to love both of my
parents, irrespective of what mistakes they made in the past. I know what it means to be an
excellent student at school and to be the object of great expectations, and I know what it means to be a bad girl, yes, a very bad girl. I know what it means to be a single mother and to raise two children, simultaneously playing the role of a mother and father — providing, protecting, teaching, caring and