To Lizzie Calvert, my granddaughter and carer.
This is the truth of who I am, and what I have done. I wish to write these memoirs and accounts of my life as a tribute to who I was, to those who saved me, and to those who made my life immeasurably better. Take from this what you will, my dear. Take from this what you want. This is not a cautionary tale, nor sorrowful song. This is my life. For better or for worse this is who I was.
