Have you ever been in a boat on a river or lake and been approached by people in another boat? They throw you a rope and then, in order to help, you pull the two together and place one foot on each boat, holding the two off each other but close enough so that passengers can jump from one to the other. That’s what my life was like: standing on two boats, anchored to nothing, with constant waves and wind—just one wave short of going over.
