``` [Age 0: You were born. Your parents named you Bode. It had no particular meaning; it just rolled off the tongue.]
[Age 1: You lived in Keskaine, a city in the Federation's central-western region. Your mother was a pharmacist, and your father was her third husband.]
[Age 2: Your father and mother had a fierce argument and ultimately chose to divorce. Your mother took you away from home. She met a new boyfriend and began dating him, eventually moving in with him.]
[Age 3: Your mother broke up with her boyfriend and took you away. Not long afterward, she met another man and brought you into his home.]
[Age 4: After a fierce argument, your mother sent you to live with your grandmother. Your grandfather was a retired worker from a machinery factory and had a drinking problem. You saw him smash things around the house in a drunken frenzy. At times like that, your grandmother would always protect you. Sometimes your uncle came home to live with your grandparents as well. He was your mother's only younger brother, already married with a daughter.]
[Age 5: Your mother broke up with her boyfriend and came to take you away. You discovered that she drank heavily all the time. You tried to stop her, and the two of you fell out. At the end of the year, she found a new boyfriend, and your life became slightly more stable.]
[Age 6: Your grandfather died. Your mother sent you to stay with your grandmother for a while. Your grandmother could be emotional at times too, but life there was far more stable than it was with your mother.
Your grandmother enrolled you in a nearby public elementary school, and you began studying.]
[Age 7: You heard your grandmother say that when