<div>I am not your trained animal.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I decided to write a record. With a perhaps unavoidable vulnerability, I write because I want to tell the outside world that each of us has a collar, although the lengths of our leashes vary. We become aware of the collars once we walk off the path mandated by those who force us to wear them.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Freedom … when we have lost it, then we feel its presence. </div>