… Let me step back as far as I can and say that what I remember most about my beginnings, besides the voice of my mother striding down through layers of dark to where I lay under the wonder of the onrush of sleep, is how I felt set apart".
The heartbreaking experiences came because I was set apart, unable to blend because of my circumstances.
I was usually the only Mexican-American female in my group and I was always set apart a little bit for that.
I was disabled, set apart, greatly blessed by very bad asthma.
There is no doubt that as a vegan, I often feel set apart from the human tribe who gather together to share meals that 99% of the time includes meat and/or dairy.
When I am not working I am more guarded, set apart.
"This will be the moment, and this will be the year, when I set myself apart from other athletes in the world," Usain Bolt has told Donald McRae as he prepares to face Yohan Blake, his friend and compatriot who has become a serious rival.
"This will be the moment, and this will be the year, when I set myself apart from other athletes in the world," Usain Bolt says in a quiet but dramatic statement of intent on the brink of the Olympic Games in London.
Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 4.38pm BST 2.45pm BST Athletics "This will be the moment, and this will be the year, when I set myself apart from other athletes in the world," Usain Bolt tells Donald McRae as he prepares to face Yohan Blake, his friend and compatriot who has become a serious rival.
God said to Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I set you apart" (Jeremiah 1 5).
