Camelia Michelle Carter was born in 1966, in Boston, Massachusetts, named Michelle Anne Reed. She was "raised" in Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Beginning at birth, she had lived a life full of abandonment, abuse, neglect, bullying, and other tragedies and horrors that no child, no adult…no human should ever have to endure. Despite all the odds, which had been so heavily stacked against her, she has survived, thrived and risen above it all. She now is free to share her story of victory with you, the reader, so that you, too, can believe and be free.