As an emerging young painter in NYC, I was living my dream, painting all day and going to art events and clubs at night. In 1982, while boiling water a flame attached itself to my sleeve and seared 55% of my body. Nothing would ever be the same. The memoir chronicles the day I was burned, the years of the arduous healing process and how I rebuilt my life through love, art and swimming. My story encourages the belief that do-overs are possible while addressing the universal ideas of identity, beauty, wanting to be seen and wanting to be invisible.