terry mcmillan, always good to see you. thank you so much for joining us today.alk to me a little bit about this new book. it's exciting. you decided to revisit "waiting to exhale" and bringing back to the lives of those four women. what's that like? >> it was like revisiting old friends, even though they weren't real. basically, i just had to get to know them again as real grownups and not as youthful women. >> so many of us remember not so much the book, but the movie and it had this happy ending, people felt rlly good and empowered. now we're returning more to the book style. did you have any struggle about that? >> no, but i wanted to make sure that people didn't think it was "waiting to exhale 2." a lot of those women that were preoccupied with back then don't seem to move them now. now they're learning how to start their lives over, reinvent themselves, re-evaluate their lives and how far they've come and what's left to do. i don't think 20 years ago they were thinking in those terms, at all. >> one of the things you have is internal validation. you're a be