{"author":"Michelle Dallocchio","author_id":"Michelle+Dallocchio","total_quotes":1,"quotes":[{"text":"Often I would hear other people ask, “When will I be normal again?”What you don’t often hear is a blunt truth: things will never be normal again. Not the “old' normal at least. You have to invent the new normal.I knew that I needed to take an honest appraisal of my life. Were my problems really bigger than me? Of course not. That’s why I remained in constant motion. Resistance to life’s changes meant death. No matter how depressing and bleak my past looked, I knew that I needed to keep moving and adapting in order to survive.","author":"Michelle Dallocchio","tags":["change","death","desert","homecoming","military","travel","war"],"id":86,"author_id":"Michelle+Dallocchio"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1,"pages":1}}