内容简介：
Kathleen M.C. Errion was born in New York City, New York, in 1949. Being born into a federal government family meant learning to adapt to new surroundings every two years or so. Moving often taught her social survival skills: watch and listen to learn. Parochial schools would teach her the discipline to endure, to see things through to the end, that no matter what happens, God loves and has a plan for us all. Given time all would turn out okay. Nowhere, however, were there lessons teaching when it was okay to let go. The internal belief that tomorrow would be better had kept her in a cold, harsh, emotionally and mentally abusive marriage for twenty years. On the heels of her filing for divorce, she was diagnosed with stage three-and-a-half breast cancer. In 1991, at age forty-one, with three girls under the age of sixteen, Kathleen found herself with no job, no money, no family close enough to help, and not enough education. The one thing she did have was a determination to live. This is the story of being forty-one and growing up for the first time. This is the story of poor choices and bad relationships. This is a story of someone who made it because she refused to give up