I'm just a person. There's nothing special or extraordinary about me. All I know and share in this book is the result of being very fortunate with meeting people, listening when they need someone to talk to, taking the time to ask questions, and generally paying attention to what's going on around me. I have had both great relationships and terrible, abusive people I clung to for far too long. What the worst times in my life have shown me is that everything gives you an opportunity to learn something. I began writing this book when I was 22, as a letter to my brother, as a present for his 18th...