GAL Author:RUTHIE BOLTON RUTHIE BOLTON WAS BORN INTO A POOR BLACK COMMUNITY IN HUNGRY NECK, JUST OUTSIDE CHARLESTON, NC. HER LEFT HER AND SHE NEVER KNEW HER FATHER. HER CHILDHOOD WAS A NIGHTMARE OF SAVAGEPHYSICAL ABUSE FROM HER GRANDFATHER WHO RAN RUTHIES MOTHER AWAY AND THEN BEAT HIS WIFE TO DEATH. A TEENAGGE PREGNANCEY AND A FAILED MARRISGE LEFT RUTHIE A HARD, CYCNICA... more »LYOUNG WOMAN HEADED FOR DESTRUCTION. BUT THEN A MIRCALE HAPPEN THAT WOIULD TURN HER ENTIRE WOULD AROUND. THE STORY SHE TELLS IN HER OWN UNFLINICHING VOICEIS THE CLOSET ANY OF US WILL EVER GET TO HEL... OR TO THE HEIGHTS THAT HUMAN SPIRIT CAN SCALE TO OVER COME IMPOSSIBLE ODDS.« less