u know your a writer when

It was one morning, just days before Christmas, when my life got turned upside down. If I’d thought anything like this could’ve ever happened to me, I would’ve checked myself into the psychiatric ward a long time geleden for sure, and then thrown away the key.
I don’t profess to have the world’s greatest imagination; even as a child I’d always had simple dreams and simple thoughts. Now, at twenty-seven years of age, I’d never have believed any of this could happen when I was a little girl. But it was happening, this was how I got in the middle of a war that had been waging for all...