The Day the Walls Came Down

September 11, 2017, I had a stroke.

I was just 62 years young. Things started to change. Not drastically. Slow. Confusing. It took years to feel the changes. Still not understanding.

I had spent my entire adult life as two completely different men — and I didn't know it. Not consciously. I was now asking myself “who is this guy, who am I, how did I do some of the things I did?”  The compartmentalization was so complete that one side of my life had no awareness of the other.

What followed wasn't a breakdown. It was an excavation. Fifty years of buried truth that started easing out of me. Writing Mr. Hyde and Me became the reckoning.

I didn't go looking for it. It came for me.

My memoir — Mr. Hyde and Me: How I Live as Two Different Men — is the account of what I found. It publishes July 1, 2026.

https://mrhydeandme.com

This is part of a countdown series leading to the

July 1, 2026 launch of Mr. Hyde and Me: How I Live as Two Different Men by Benjamin F Sautter.