1/2 smile

I'm a very handsome brother I've been told. But, a little over two years ago, I was deformed.
People would stare me in the face, fixing their eyes on my distorted form. I was born a healthy child.
No ailments, deformities, or life-threatening diseases prevented me from growing up normally. My
disfigurement slowly began around the summer of 2003.

I was still in school finishing up two spanish classes as I had walked across that graduation stage a
few months before. I started to notice something strange whenever I attended class as I had to practice
speaking to classmates and the professor. A lot of people started to misunderstand me as my speech
became slurred, and mispronunciation became more evident. My mouth started to lose its form as my lips
were no longer the perfectly-shaped specimens that complemented my unaffected nose, eyes, and ears.

This bothered me a great deal as I tried to understand and figure what the hell was going on. Could this be
some physiological response to stress? Hereditary, chemical, perhaps? I never knew why this happened, but
over time, fortunately, it went away.

I've just recently improved through therapy. My personal pathologist was the one who allowed me frequent
visits with 'her'. It was a 'Freshe' idea. All she did was listen. I no longer have the affliction that I suffered from
back then, thanks to her help, but never knew the reason why my deformity emerged.

It was by mere chance that I discovered what was wrong with me back then. A friend of mine here at work sent me
Q-Tip's 'Live at the Renaissance' EP. We often share music here at work and he turned me on to this. A revelation
and epiphany come via track #5, coincidently entitled 'Lisa' was written in specific detail for me.

Lisa Raquel Robinson left me with just a 1/2 smile