I Woke Up a Stranger to Myself

my head pounding, five

I was a free-spirited 21-year

told me I was 26, married to a

ed stranger who barely a

me: my art, my motorcycle, even the

unted an affair, and when I desper

fe extinguished by h

llious artist, had been obsessed with him, f

nster I became, the architect of my own

I be thi

verything for a ma

him to a death race for my freedom

a hospital, but at a dinner

y engagement to Et

ouldn't make t

ng back my chair. "I