I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
God hears a mother's prayer.
Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.