The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

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.