 And then she looked at me and she said two amazing things. The first was, she said, you really understand suffering. That's why you should teach. My childhood had been really rough. It was really hard. My father and mother got divorced when I was four. My father disappeared. My mother died when I was nine. I was living with my father's parents at that point. And when I was 11, he came back. It was the first time I'd seen him.