Memory - Ancestors

If polygamy were legal, would I do it?

Out of the mud, the ice, and the blood, came me, one of those inexplicable happenings. There's no reason for it. Though I suffer from an axis of three evil diseases -- diabetes, asthma, and depression, -- and though shit happens, I am glad to be alive.

My grandmother was a talented artist with the needle and thread. She knew how to create eye-deceiving dappling that made her works seem alive.