I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.