(updated with italic May 3rd 2011)
1. I get sick on boats but I love boats
2. I love dogs but I’m allergic
3. I spend too much money shopping
4. Mild bipolarity runs in my family (and I have it too – why I disappear sometimes)
5. I have occasional narcoleptic events (not for more than one year)
6. I have a sister I have never seen (mother was molested before marriage)
7. Almost all lovers I’ve had have hurt me (one did not, I do not think my new one will)
8. It is hard for me to feel real happiness for long
9. My father beat my mother every day when I was growing up
10. The woman I loved died 2 years 4 years ago
