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Having survived a near-fatal car crash, found the love of her life, and now scaled back her work at APCH, Debrah shares the story of her life, loves, traumas and triumphs in her book, Fat Stupid Ugly: One Woman's Courage to Survive.
Her work addresses heavy topics like love, sex, trauma, loss, and healing and is imbibed in a written style that is disarmingly simple.
"I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equated the idea of connection and love with trauma and death," he recalls.
They speak of experience, life, trauma, love, and echo how Anna Quindlen captured the power of the reading experience, "In books, I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
Many of their themes overlap: childhood, parents, country labors, loves, the trauma of their divided country, the empires of art and literature.
When we first met in Texas last year, Maria Elena and I broke the ice in very Salvadoran ways: sharing memories from the 1980s, memories filled with love and traumas born in poor neighborhoods like that of her childhood.
For Rotolo, it was a trajectory that would take her from the sweetness of first love to the trauma of abortion.
Concentrating more on the turmoil of love than the trauma of war, it is rendered with the quick hand of a sketch rather than the textured layering of an oil painting.
The only thing left for him to doubt was love itself, a trauma he painfully experienced in the course of his liaison (1831 38) with the actress Marie Dorval, for whom he was to create the role of Kitty Bell in the play Chatterton in 1835.
"I just found the subject matter very moving, that's what drew me to it and the power of somebody loving someone through trauma.
