After reading your book, I was blown away for many reasons. I am an African American female who was in a similar situation. Now that I am grown and I look at my daughter and my little cousins I pray they do not have the same issues that I have. So my goal is to get together with them... and talk about the issues that they are dealing with. I wish somebody would have sat down with me when I was younger and now I have an opportunity of doing so. I wanted to thank you for sharing your passion with us -Carmen D. Cleveland, OH