Once, I Ran Away With a Band

The 10,000 Maniacs, Narrative, and Grief

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Sometimes, someone will ask me to tell them the most interesting thing about myself. I am, if nothing, else, a person who has had some interesting, not all together normal experiences. In a few ways, I am one in a million and a half.

I have a rare neurological disease that is so rare most neurologists have never heard of it, and I don’t have a belly…