We’re all young and dumb at some point in our lives, right? I was.

I left home when I was 17, after graduating high school, convinced that I should join a traveling ministry group. I was like Gelsomina and the pastor I worked for was like Zampano. As the famous Fellini movie La Strada had a tragic ending, so my story would also have a sad ending.

I fell in love with a man that I can only call a Tool:  “someone who tries too hard to act cool, a poser” (as defined by urbandictionary.com). This guy, who we’ll call Tool, had convinced me that he was in love with me and proposed to me over the phone. And here begins my story…