Bullard talks about this long-ago feeling of distaste sitting in her Hermosa Beach town home, while behind her a large black Labrador retriever is earnestly trying to get at a cupboard full of pet toys. If she hadn't put them away, the dog would have been harassing the feet of her guest with a well-gnawed chew toy. There's cat people and there's dog people, she said. I was a cat person until I got a dog. Compromise A funny thing can happen to a person when necessity kicks in.
Bad food can taste good.
Dirty water becomes drinkable. Loathsome creatures become allegiant companions. At age 6, Bullard got her first pair of eyeglasses. At age 9, she started to lose her night vision. Doctors diagnosed her with retinitis pigmentosa.