Your Choice!

What do you think shapes our identity? Is it your family? Your environment? Your peers / friends? Your mind? As you read through this book, different characters will be introduced to you in which everyone are unique individuals but at the same time are influenced largely from other entities outside of themselves. Family on the other hand serves as a foundation for some. But think about your best friend or your boyfriend / girlfriend. Think about the relationship itself that makes a person fulfill such titles as: best friend, boyfriend / girlfriend. The choices we make and the way we deal with things has a lot to do with our individual experiences as well as what we have learned from the people around us. If one is unsuccessful with a stage, even if one moves on to the next stage, they will still have to at some point address and successfully complete that stage. If not it may effect how an individual passes effectively through the next stages.

Tiona Gunthorpe, born and raised in Yonkers, NY. She graduated from Charles E. Gorton High School in 1993 as an honor student. She continued her education by achieving her Bachelor Degree in Psychology in 1998. She graduated from Yeshiva University with 3.7 average and received her Master's Degree in Social Work in 2001. Her joy for writing began during her early childhood years. She started writing poetry around the age of 8. Her love for her friends and family has always been genuine and she believes she's been blessed to have them part of her world. She dedicates her book to her daughter, Denim Anderson, mainly because of the joy she has brought to her world. It is also dedicated to her mother, Suzette Gunthorpe, who has been her role model from the very beginning. Tiona thanks her mother for helping her become the woman she is today (independent, proud, and strong).