What she chose to be was a person who knows how her house’s plumbing works in a general way. A person who understands the fundamental mechanics of the truck she drives, the farm she owns. She chose to be a person who will research how to do almost anything, then do it—draft a sublease agreement, change a flat tire, repair a leaky faucet, balance books and file taxes, build a tree house and a campfire, reignite a pilot light, tape and spackle and sand and paint a patch of drywall. Also a woman who knows how to defend herself. Even how to kill someone, using nothing but her bare hands.
