This year, I turned twenty-nine years old. I’m fascinated by that sentence. The characters of my life have so changed drastically over nine years, I would fail miserably at describing the impact of the last almost-decade. So many people have come and gone, and how different they all were! As a child, you don’t think that what you have is just an vague impression of reality. You think that everything in the world belongs to you and all you could...