The author was speaking with a friend one day who said to her, "you're in the deep end and many people can't handle that"...there it was...the realization that the deep end is not where the masses dwell. Hurts from childhood to adulthood, losing parents and her only living brother by the time she was in her mid 30's, the process of divorce and rearing teens alone, a life-threatening illness after a documented mistake on the job...what in the world...would...