Preface:
"Part of My Words"-"Are e el you couldn't hear me or see me correct I'm shocked! Cae ll me ish male!"
People say you can't lose your mind all at once. They say it's a slow unraveling, a gentle slip into confusion, like a thread tugged loose from a sweater. But that's not how it happened for me. My name is Felicia Hook—Hagler, if you want to be technical, though I haven't used my married name in years. I'm thirty-six, a mother of two, and I know exactly when my life split in two: the day the world stopped making sense, and everyone else pretended not to notice.