throughout this process with me jo morrison and kirk adkins, i lost many a night, nightmares reliving some of these stories, watching parents, you know, trayvon martin. like i said, i wanted to hear their voices, you know? they really matter to me. it's a lot of fear, a lot of pain. it took a long time to write those chapters. chapter 31 is the -- 11 is the chapter that was, by far, the most painful for me. it was the black family in the era of mass incarceration, it was horribly painful. but i needed to sit there so i could really feel what my clients were living with. and some of my own personal story also. very few black families today, i'll just say it, are not personally impacted by criminalization or the criminal legal system, and my family's no exception. so some of that is there as well. >> thank you for sharing. there are a couple of questions, and i don't know if there are any that are jumping out at you in particular. there are a couple of questions about girls and women. and you mentioned that earlier, making sure to call it out in particular. particular things that you wa