Neither todaynor ten times ten yesterdays,in my backyard or in the tents of squalorthat seem continents away;neither at searing noon nor soaring midnight,beaten by wind or bewildered by sea;
When I was a young girl, I had acute, almost continuous stomach problems; migraine headaches that often lasted two or three days at a time; heavy colds accompanied by bronchitis; spots that disfigured my body; fevers, and other illnesses.