My Life Has Been Utterly Unremarkable

This is not a story of turning one's life around. It has no triumphant ending, no perfect reconciliation.

It is simply the record of an ordinary person who lived earnestly, suffered quietly, and made it through an ordinary life.

Written for all the children who grew up facing cold stares and contempt,

for all of us who left the mountains behind, yet could never escape the mountains within us.