She Wasn't Supposed to Fly: Told to Be Small. Born to Be Boundless.

The morning her career disappeared, S. T. Griffon sat in stunned silence, staring at the life she had spent decades building and suddenly no longer recognized.

The titles were gone. The structure was gone. The armor was gone. What remained was a question she had outrun for years: Who am I if I'm not achieving?

Born into instability on the South Side of Chicago, Griffon was taught to expect little from life and even less from herself. She refused. She became a U.S. Army paratrooper, a single m...