The only person upset was my wonderful surgeon, who had looked forward to reconstructing me.
I became surgical guinea pig, subject to medical procedures, tests and interventions, as devoted medical staff put hours into reconstructing and reconstructing me, determined to give me a digestive system and a functional life.
But to those demanding early sovereignty in Iraq, as a precondition for helping, she said: "If you want me to be sovereign, come and help me reconstruct my country.... Help me get ready quicker".
From that moment, I can tell you absolutely nothing about what happened, except as it was eventually reconstructed for me by others.
The scene and the dialogue presented were reconstructed for me by two individuals who heard it while walking out of the White House Situation Room.
For the past two years, I have been reading her work and travelling, mainly in Europe and Latin America, to meet the people who could help me reconstruct her implacable self.
The house burned down when I was 16 and I don't have many photo references to help me reconstruct what the interior looked like.
To illustrate how the House of Representatives sometimes works, let me reconstruct a conversation I had with Democratic U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro a decade ago when I sat next to her on a flight from Washington to her home district in New Haven, Connecticut.
Let me reconstruct the crime scene in a different way, which I hope will encourage a more general examination of the role of ANAs in lupus.
"Nothing in this economic package is a magic bullet that will get me to reconstruct my portfolio," said Anthony M. Maramarco, a managing director at David L. Babson & Company, an investment firm.
