Just a momentary reflection as I write this book:
As I go through this process — writing my life story, then moving forward through the questions, answers, insights, and transformations — in the back of my mind, I ponder what the best structure should be going forward.
While it is not quite time for that yet — I need to finish this first draft — I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do.
But one question popped up today:
What is the first thing I want to say to the reader, at the very beginning, to let them know what this is all about?
And this showed up in my brain as an answer:
“It Happens”
After our first night together, Ed, who was then my new boyfriend, said to me,
“So tell me about you! I want to know who you are!”
I answered, “You don’t want to know who I am. Let’s go to breakfast.”
Later, after breaking up, and then finally getting back together, I answered him.
“My father sexually abused me for 28 years.”
It gave him pause. Until a conversation with his mother, who simply said, “It happens.”
This book is the story of the journey back from “It happens,” to what happens next…
So, It happens. At the very least, that will continue to guide me as I keep writing….
Soul Mosaic 
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