Survived: malaria, food poisoning, third degree burns working too close to the equator, jumping off a forty-foot tree. On other notes...read Plato's republic at 13 lip-glossed and strutting in platform heels , went to college at 16, conquered stage fright at 17, got initiated into Kriya Yoga at 19, hiked the Great Wall of China....proud, stubborn SAAB owner.