True Believer. Yes, you have to be a true believer to keep your vessel on the path. This is a vast ocean where La Vaughn’s voice rang clear and rose up to the waters near me. Fifteen years old LaVaughn had many questions in her mind. How did God decide that her Dad had to died? Is her father in heaven? What does a first kiss feel like? When Jody came back, beautiful and friendly, to live in the same building, LaVaughn knew she was ready to let him love her. But, when the first kiss finally happened it didn’t come like anything she had expected. In fact many things didn’t come like she had expected them at all. Was it really a kiss? And why did Jody laugh? La Vaughn will discover that Jody also has important decisions to take in life. Just as Myrtle and Annie, her childhood-long friends, have also decided on their own path, slowly drifting away. La Vaughn would have to “rise to the occasion, which is life,” with courage and hard work, to keep her hope for a better life, to love her friends, to believe in herself. A true Believer. True Believer Virginia Euwer Wolff