Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Letter 1: The Sister I Never Knew
Letter 2: Our Baby Sister
Letter 3: Your Death Left Much Sorrow
Letter 4: What a Difference a Year Makes
Letter 5: Our Lineage Is a Strong One
Letter 6: School Days
Letter 7: Have Mamma and Daddy Gone Crazy?
Letter 8: Not So Bad
Letter 9: Church Life
Letter 10: Thinking White
Letter 11: High School Was Painful
Letter 12: Buried Pain Will Come Up Again
Letter 13: More Messed-Up Thinking
Letter 14: The Year of the Debutante
Letter 15: Bama
Letter 16: Suicidal Thoughts
Letter 17: The Family Business
Letter 18: The Trials
Letter 19: 4 Little Girls
Letter 20: Justice
Letter 21: Tracey
Letter 22: Reconciliation
Letter 23: Church Can Be a Painful Place
Letter 24: White Church
Letter 25: Unlucky at Love
Letter 26: I Was the Wrong Color
Letter 27: Getting Along
Letter 28: What Does It Mean to Be Called a White Girl?
Letter 29: Serving All the People
Letter 30: Daddy’s Dilemma
Letter 31: Dogs Have Always Been My Closest Friends
Letter 32: Crazy Stuff People Say
Letter 33: Glory
Letter 34: 9/11
Letter 35: Racial Issues
Letter 36: Our Black Heritage
Letter 37: We Aren’t So Different
Letter 38: Daddy Is with You Now
Letter 39: Comfortable in My Own Skin
Letter 40: So Long for Now
The 4 Little Girls Memorial Fund
The Morgan Project
Sojourn into the Past
Index