sometimes

someone writes something that i find so compelling that i feel as though i am in the story, that i am the character, that the memories are mine or that i can hear, see and smell as their own fictional senses do.

other times, someone writes something, and i really do know a bit about being in that particular kind of story.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/18/organ-donation-health-policy-transplant

i could not ever have described the transition from the old life to the new life any better myself...