I've come to embrace my duality. Without the darkness of life's experience, the light is rarely felt so joyfully. I've understood this from a tender age. It is why I write. I guess you could say that I write in an attempt to reach for the light of understanding. It started in college when I found the courage to write about crime and law for the newspaper and to interview judges and attorneys for a BBC radio show. I needed to know how some horrific things happened to those I