(I continue my Wednesday peek into my book, The Women Within Me: How they Helped Me Survive and Thrive.) Ch. 3 Brushes with Death: The nine-year-old relates her first encounter with her mother’s suicide attempt. The tone changes when, then 18, she finds her mother in their gas-filled kitchen, then at 22 and with an overdue pregnancy, again saving her mother. The chapter ends with her reflections on what she had learned from her Influencers that helped her through those suicide attempts.