thankryone, and good morning.thank you to the rancho mirage writers festival for having us here for you all the audience for being hd the chance to be on the stage and answer questions from ari mel and idea was to really do a little b the side and the personal journey of you and o are and this extraordinary extraordinary and what was pretty brutal coming of age story in washington, dc, the cautio tale but ultimately inspirational one, i think, and i know this has been inspiring for me as so we all know the public came to know through testimony before the house select committee tounitedbut it wasn't until about a year after that testify that you were able to to begin writing story and to telling your your full story publicly. and so i'd like to start from the a jersey girl, jersey tell tell me. growing up in new jersey with a mom and dad who split when you were in fifth grade. a you were born in your home. so was your brother. one of the both of us were your both home. but and your brother was born. before new jers