In hindsight, 1982 was the most significant year of my life. During that year, really awful things took place and really wonderful things. The awful turned into the wonderful and eventually, the wonderful turned into the awful. It was how I started looking at life that way. To start the year I rekindled a relationship with someone who had physically abused me every six months. A year earlier, I had left him but he continued to pursue me until I relented and went back. He gave me Hep B. Ten day...