But now she’s in a mental hospital. She’s bipolar. Mentally ill. Crazy. She imagines her bridge from childhood to adulthood crumbling on either side of where she stands, leaving her stranded in the middle, neither here nor there, nowhere. The invitation requesting her presence at a normal life has been rescinded. In its place, she’s been invited to an abnormal life, the box for WILL ATTEND already checked, leaving her no choice.
