The biography of Rachel and the autobiography of myself written in memory of my mother. Our lives mirrored one another. We both traveled through the deep valley of despair and came out onto the higher ground of victory and praise. I tell the details of what brought her to her knees in prayer. How her life shadows over my life and her other children. I say the details of what brought me to my knees in prayer. My mother birth ten children of which I am the third. I recant the unusual circumstances of my birth and how my birth helped to change her life. She was born in the nineteen thirties, and I was born in the nineteen fifties. We both traveled separately from the country; locust filled roads of Hartsville South Carolina onto the crime-filled streets of the Bronx New York.