They say that history is written by the victorious, at least when it comes to the state of the world after a war is over. Well though my life has felt like I've been in the wars at times it has in most ways actually been quite 'normal' by most people's standards.
But not everything in life is 'normal'. Or at least when it all kicked off it wasn't anything like expected or typical or understood in any way.
Today I - finally - watched a film I've known of for years but hadn't seen previously. Called "A Girl like Me: the Gwen Araujo Story" it was the story of Gwen from her early years until she was beaten to death in Newark, California, by a group of men aged only 17 in 2002.
I tried watching it all, but parts of it kept making my memories well up and, in the end, I had to turn it off half-way through.
So, yes, this is the anonymous journal of someone whose life history isn't quite as 'normal' as most other peoples. "Scenes from a life", if you will.
I'll jump back and forth rather than try to write chronologically as that will probably be simpler that trying to set things in order from the getgo.
So .. welcome. Why don't you sit down quietly just there and let me tell you a story. A true life story, in fact, though I don't know yet how it will end. Maybe we'll find out together.
(written for an earlier blog, about a year ago)
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