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Note to the Reader

No one in this memoir asked to be in it. Yet here they are.

I’ve written only those parts of their lives that directly intersect with my story. I’ve prayed for the wisdom to write them as real as I can and have done my best to acknowledge when I’ve done them wrong. I’ve changed all their names and, where possible, without compromising the emotional truth of the story, some details. I thank each of them in advance, especially my family, for understanding that I had to write this story.

Vivian Gornick says about memoir that, “It’s not what happened; it’s what you made of what happened.” I think it’s both, but I understand what she means. If I had chosen a different life—or it had chosen me—my interpretation of the past, especially my childhood, might be different. I present to you this account, the only one I can.