His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Bio: Tod Wodicka is an American author who grew up in Queensbury, New York, and lived for twenty years in Europe, including Manchester, England; Prague; Moscow; and Berlin. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.