ms. vanessa deluca. i'm suffering from allergies and losing my voice. didn't read the book yet but i certainly look forward to reading more. i am 62 years of age that coming from the heels of the civil rights movement i wouldn't even know where to begin to write a book with so many chapters. one of the things i grew up with first of all family so there's so much generation stuff but i do see that's worth a discussion and at some point because we have people that lived with us and all of our relatives from the south. but now the younger generations allow the generations to read start family reunions. i can relate to so much of what you are saying. when we talk about our families, they tend to start to talk about granddaddy and the sun that. my grandfather was a sharecropper so i said that's what i say but a sister said no granddaddy owns his own land. so it's a whole you know and my cousin claudine would say the same thing. so the way we see our family is really somewhat different. my brothers won't talk about it at all. and i will just make one other co