My Story

About the Author I just turned twenty-seven as I was completing this book. I was born in Chicago, Illinois at Memorial Medical Center on the east side in February, but I was raised in Springfield, Illinois on the north side. I was in foster care until I was adopted my parents Tonya and Doug Deal at the age of twelve. I am an African-American women raised by a white family. The point of this to show you there can always be diversity in any family. I was raised to be proper, get an education,...