Andrea Reynolds knows about crises from personal experience;
she can empathize with yours.
- Watched her parents have violent arguments before they separated, age 3-4.
- Experienced having a 1 year-old brother given up for adoption, age 6.
- Survived a dog attack, age 7.
- Enduring physical beatings from her mother during childhood.
- Handled the suicide attempt by her mother at age 14.
- Witnessed the shooting at Kent State, May 1970.
- Survived a broken neck, Oxford England, 1971.
- Narrowly missed a bomb blast by minutes in a Belfast pub, 1976.
- Left an alcoholic, controlling husband, 1985.
- Survived carbon monoxide poisoning, Toronto, 1989.
List is incomplete.
