If this were fiction it would be too outlandish. . . .

Rating: Null/10 (23 April 2000)

If this were fiction it would be too outlandish, the premise would be rejected as "just too far out," and the protagonist would be derided as too vulgar, too brash, too coarse, too cartoonish, too far out, and far, far too strange to be even moderately believable.
Since the story happens to be true, however, the simple facts usurp the judgments normally put against a story line, and the wildness of reality takes over. She's real, it happened-- and once again truth is stranger than fiction.