Michelle Marie Spranger is born on January 20, 1976. Her father adopted a name for his pre-mature infant: Mitzi. And so she is named "Mitzi" for 9 years of her early life. She is protected here. She is loved. Despite the fact that her baby brother requires a move to a larger abode, and this began to drive the train off the tracks, this child of God prays earnestly: "Please, God, don't let me forget how to cry." She does not know the magnitude of her request. She only knows that tears allow the Godhead to embrace her in a safe, taunt hug.
Years later, she learns of God through ordinary encounters.
Amply, her peers mock her. Why? Her name sounds foreign. Her heart bleeds each time her peers jeer. For God's sake, she learns how to forget the pain. Unfortunate for the heathen souls, Mitzi's peace-making efforts to ignore the worst (to drive such behavior into extinction) proves ineffectual. Instead, her peers ramp up the torture. In deed, they legislate mental torture into law until Mitzi (now reclaiming her Christ-anointed Name, "Michelle") finds herself spread-eagle in thick leather cuffs in a state mental hospital in Illinois. Why? She is crying too passionately. Too much at one with Jesus. This is not a law her country understands.