Daria Burke

I suppose it was a blessing to have grown up as a Cosby kid, you know, to be able to grow up and witness a family that was so different from mine. And parents who were not only... present, but they were successful. And you had a mother who was a lawyer and a father who was a doctor. And there was conversation about art and about school and education, and we saw loving discipline.

I suppose it was a blessing to have grown up as a Cosby kid, you know, to be able to grow up and witness a family that was so different from mine. And parents who were not only... present, but they were successful. And you had a mother who was a lawyer and a father who was a doctor. And there was conversation about art and about school and education, and we saw loving discipline.

I suppose it was a blessing to have grown up as a Cosby kid, you know, to be able to grow up and witness a family that was so different from mine. And parents who were not only... present, but they were successful. And you had a mother who was a lawyer and a father who was a doctor. And there was conversation about art and about school and education, and we saw loving discipline.

And so I think I could grasp onto some of the images that I saw on TV. And I was such a reader that I think it fed my escapism as well in that way. And every chance we got, in school to do anything different, whether it was a field trip to a museum or to a farm or the zoo. It just all felt so expansive for me.

And so I think I could grasp onto some of the images that I saw on TV. And I was such a reader that I think it fed my escapism as well in that way. And every chance we got, in school to do anything different, whether it was a field trip to a museum or to a farm or the zoo. It just all felt so expansive for me.

And so I think I could grasp onto some of the images that I saw on TV. And I was such a reader that I think it fed my escapism as well in that way. And every chance we got, in school to do anything different, whether it was a field trip to a museum or to a farm or the zoo. It just all felt so expansive for me.

And I really held so tightly to the possibility that there was another way to live, even though I didn't have a lot of evidence that it was real.

And I really held so tightly to the possibility that there was another way to live, even though I didn't have a lot of evidence that it was real.

And I really held so tightly to the possibility that there was another way to live, even though I didn't have a lot of evidence that it was real.

Okay, so by the time I was 10 years old, I was reading Danielle Steele. Oh, really? And I don't know where I got these books from. Someone in my mother's life... Must have been a part of one of those membership clubs, you know, where you could sign up for. Yeah. Remember, Columbia House Records had it for CDs, and then there was one for books. So I had come across Full Circle.

Okay, so by the time I was 10 years old, I was reading Danielle Steele. Oh, really? And I don't know where I got these books from. Someone in my mother's life... Must have been a part of one of those membership clubs, you know, where you could sign up for. Yeah. Remember, Columbia House Records had it for CDs, and then there was one for books. So I had come across Full Circle.

Okay, so by the time I was 10 years old, I was reading Danielle Steele. Oh, really? And I don't know where I got these books from. Someone in my mother's life... Must have been a part of one of those membership clubs, you know, where you could sign up for. Yeah. Remember, Columbia House Records had it for CDs, and then there was one for books. So I had come across Full Circle.

It was the first book of hers that I read. And it was like a salmon pink cover. And that was what I was reading. I was not reading Sweet Valley High and Judy Blume. I was reading Danielle Steele.

It was the first book of hers that I read. And it was like a salmon pink cover. And that was what I was reading. I was not reading Sweet Valley High and Judy Blume. I was reading Danielle Steele.

It was the first book of hers that I read. And it was like a salmon pink cover. And that was what I was reading. I was not reading Sweet Valley High and Judy Blume. I was reading Danielle Steele.

Girl. And then Terry McMillan. Yes.

Girl. And then Terry McMillan. Yes.

Girl. And then Terry McMillan. Yes.

There are a couple of reasons. I think the first one is that there was something specific about the telling of my story in this way that was a knitting together all of these selves that I had shed along the way towards survival and a reclaiming of them and an honoring of them. That felt really important to me.

There are a couple of reasons. I think the first one is that there was something specific about the telling of my story in this way that was a knitting together all of these selves that I had shed along the way towards survival and a reclaiming of them and an honoring of them. That felt really important to me.