| As a young woman in my late 20’s, I look back on my childhood as a time when I was so close to being lost to the tides of crime, community drug abuse and my community’s general lack of hope and faith in our future. At this time in the late 80’s, the Central East Austin Community, where I was raised, headed for destruction.
Although I have very loving and intelligent parents, they had not themselves been prepared for the tasks necessary to send me on a track towards college... | 
