The last 10-15 years of medical research into treating brain aneurysms, and the increasing popularity of rapid-response stroke treatment protocols, without both of which I’d be either dead or permanently brain-damaged.
A cultural setting where a smart and personable working-class kid can more or less drift into a lucrative and not-too-challenging professional context.
A cultural setting where I can establish a household with my husband and have it legally and socially acknowledged as a family.
A cultural/technological setting where communication among like-minded folks across large geographic distances is trivial.
The last 10-15 years of medical research into treating brain aneurysms, and the increasing popularity of rapid-response stroke treatment protocols, without both of which I’d be either dead or permanently brain-damaged.
A cultural setting where a smart and personable working-class kid can more or less drift into a lucrative and not-too-challenging professional context.
A cultural setting where I can establish a household with my husband and have it legally and socially acknowledged as a family.
A cultural/technological setting where communication among like-minded folks across large geographic distances is trivial.