When I began college, I would have told you that the truth was lies — and I preferred the darkness. I would have told you that the truth were lies — and I preferred the darkness. I read Heart of Darkness with a middle-aged literature professor in a corduroy jacket who quoted Albert Camus and the Moody Blues. When I transferred to a Catholic university in the Fall, it was like emerging from darkness into the light. I became a daily communicant, returned to confession, and started to live a Catholic life.