As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

Shocked herself remembers that Michelle Shocked joked the award "could have been called 'They Might Be Lesbians'". These people from outward appearances had survived the war quite well when in fact inside their minds were blown. And I'm a fornicator with a capital F.