This was an incredibly heart-breaking story, Snook. The life she continues to live and lead in the lucid moments permitted to her in her life, in her memories of being a young girl of able mind and body, is so calming, peaceful, and freeing. I think what makes this so achingly beautiful is that she is so aware in those moments that she has this alternate reality that she loves and that clearly fulfilled her at one point in her life, and now in some abstract way remains a solitary escape for her and frees her despite the true actuality of her real-life in which she remains completely constrained and barely exists. !LUV !ALIVE !PIZZA