Awakening From the Abyss At age 16, as a high-school junior, I left campus that afternoon simply to grab something to eat. What began as a routine hunger break turned into the most horrific moment of my life when our car collided head-on with a construction truck. The driver, impaired by alcohol and high on �-cocaine, caused devastation. I have no conscious memory of the impact. I only learned later of the chaos: the tug-of-war of jaws of life, the tangled engine parts, the a