heyday

All the imperfect years of seventeen. I suppose I could try to narrow myself down to a few typed lines, and in all honesty I would succeed. I am not a complicated creature. I'm a rebel and a follower, a lover and a fighter, a believer and an atheist. In other words, I am exactly what you--each and every one of you--were, are, and will be. An empress--the only one in the history of China to have her own throne--once left this world with a legacy and a blank tombstone. The moral of this story is, let the others judge your accomplishments and your failures. This is my epitaph.