Thank you peter so much. It has been a journey of love for me. I grew up in southwest iowa, a very rural part of the state and the perseverance, the dedication, the hard work that my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime. Opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell the story that could be uplifting. Certainly people will face challenges throughout their lifetime but we all should understand that those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. Im just blessed that we live in a great United States of america and have these opportunities and i thats what i hope to share in this story with other people. The book is relatively revealing and we will goes through some of those things but was not tough to expose yourself like that . It was very hard. Ive been through a number of significant challenges inmy lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman. With my first boyfriend and really suffered from that but then moving on goin
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