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Tell me about your vision when you decided to begin writing.

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It goes back, like I said, two decades.

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At that time, I was working at one of the top hospitals

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in New York City, and I worked there for over 20 years.

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And originally I started in security and then I went to

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and I became I specialized in mental health, what we call

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Moab, aggression. We dealt with aggressive behaviors and

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all types of behaviors.

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So I specialize in that and I specialize in customer service.

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So a lot of the doctors said, you know, you really, you know,

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you got a good report with the patients and everything and

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with people.

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He said, well, tell me a little bit about yourself.

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And I started telling people about my story and they were

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like, I can't believe you would do all that stuff.

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So because at a very early age, sorry about that, at 15, my

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mom put me out.

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So I come from a very strong mom and a very strong dad, but

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my mom was she was a single mom.

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So I would see dad once in a blue moon.

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But the reason why I put this book together because over

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the years I've helped to inspire a lot of young folks, not

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only young folks, seniors, people all walks of life, you

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know, because sometimes we need to get back to that.

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You know, we need to sometimes since COVID we've been

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disconnected and we need to get back in touch with that.

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And our young folks are suffering for that big time.

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So I want to be a blessing to them.