I have had the great pleasure of seeing this writer evolve over the last few years into someone confident and being willing to say what she had been reluctant to at first, to go further than she thought she could. She may be from Boring, Maryland, but that is the great oxymoron of all time. She will write books, very fine ones, because she is able to see far below the surface to the things we are all afraid of and that we find hard to make sense of. The second-to-last paragraph of her piece is sublime.