The Worlds Within Her (57 page)

I AM NOT
a final product, Mrs. Livingston. I am a process. As are you. As is everyone. It is to me the most unsettling, and most reassuring, truth about what young people today call “identity.” My dear, I haven't got
an
identity. None of us does. What a great tragedy that would be, don't you think?

The author wishes to thank Anne Holloway for the brilliance of her editing and Doris Cowan for copy-editing par excellence. From both, I have learnt a great deal.

The author also wishes to thank the team of Montreal's
Newswatch
for their generosity in showing me how things work.