1. Art school - where they told us straight out in the first week of my first year that their goal was to get half of us to freak out and leave because they only had places in the second year for half of us.
2. Mugging at gunpoint - I thought the guy was going to shoot me because he was so nervous.
3. Childhood sexual abuse by two relatives - ‘Nuff said.
4. 30 years of misdiagnosed bipolar disorder - Needless to say my faith in the mental health care system is a bit on the rocks.
5. Cocaine addiction- 11 years clean and sober, and counting!
6. Death, or a near death experience - It felt like the former to me.
7. Falling off an 80 foot high cliff into the pacific ocean - With only a bruise to show for it.
8. Having my little subaru hit by an 18 wheeler truck - Comically enough the trucker didn’t realize he’d hit a car, and thought he’d just hit a box in the road or somesuch.
9. Rape - and yes, I said no very clearly.
10. Bumgardner - The painting professor who told me to see a psychiatrist and never take one of his classes again. It was well worth it to see the green look on his face when I showed up for his class the next semester.
11. Watching a friend die slowly of Jakob-Cruzfeldt disease, aka Mad Cow for humans.
12. Grabbing the loaded gun out of the hand of a cokehead who was waving it around at his birthday party and whacking him on the head with the butt. - I wasn’t willing to let him even accidentally kill his friends at his party.
13. Being stalked by my ex-husband. - I put an end to that by reminding him that he’d taught me to shoot.

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