. >> host: in the road out, who iis adriano, blair, mariah, elizabeth, shannon, jessica and alicia? >> guest: these are such an amazing girls i got to know when i was teaching in cincinnati. so i mentioned that i had gotten my college degree and my graduate degree ended up getting a teaching job in cincinnati ohio, and there i discovered this amazing neighborhood. it's a neighborhood of appalachian people in the inner city, and it sort of goes back to the part o that part of amers history when you have people in the region moving up north to look for jobs in cincinnati and dayton and akron. so i was teaching at the university of cincinnati and found out that there was an aberration community and i went there and decided to the people at the public elementary school in the community called lower price hill, we do on -- would you let me be a teacher in your elementary school and teach kids? so i began teaching and i got to know these seven girls, blair, or i am so forth, and at that time when i first met my students they were only in second grade. i followed them into third grading fo