Special Victims Unit

You’re an addict. You don’t know when to stop. Too much is bad for you. You need toget your priorities straight.” Although these stern words can and have been offered in manydifferent situations, I suppose you weren’t expecting them to be used in reference to my8-year-old self’s addiction to the television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. But, thatwas the case. By the time I was 8, my one true love, my best friends, and my idols were allmembers of the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit. I can still clearly hear my mother’s voicefrantically insisting that I turn the T.V. off and listen to her, but her demands were futile becauseI was so entranced in this show and, in fact, I believe it ended up having an enormous influenceon why I am who I am.At