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We had a white picket fence, and Yo-Yo, our Yorkie puppy For breakfast and dinner, ould sit at the dining rooether, and each ti the prayer That was our lifestyle It hat I was accusto about it because I loved how family oriented ere I mean, we are still very family oriented Sunday dinners in our family were mandatory After church every Sunday, we meet up at my parents’ house to have dinner as a family

After home and school, the church was my third home I probably went to church at least four ti ho well because my parents didn’t play that I remember when Naomi turned fourteen, and she started her period My sister was four years older than me, so I didn’t even knohat a period was at the ti that her stooing to church, but of course, they wouldn’t allow her to That’s just how they were They never allowed us to sit anything out, to give up on so that we did our best

I hate to use the Lord’s name in vain, but God, my parents rode us They rode us so hard, especially h school I came home the first quarter of the school year with all A’s on my report card and one B I had always been in advanced classes InAP and IB classes, but I was also doing dual enrolle It allowed ree at the sah school diploma

A lot was going on, and the class that I received the B in was AP physics Mind you, I had the highest grade in the class No one had ever passed her class with a C or higher, and I told my father that His response was, “Since when is it okay to try to be like everyone else?” I re that B, but the second I showed it to my father, he crushed me with his words or rather his lack of words because I expected hi because I needed to get rode like that I needed to be pushed, because if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have cos that I have achieved in my lifetime

I was only twenty-six, and I had already coest and the only black doctor working in ht children’s Sunday school and children’s bible study at my parents’ church I had over ten Christian children’s books online, and they were even sold in major bookstores like Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, and a few other places I was good I felt like I was at a point in my life where I was set, but with all the success I had, my love life was non-existent

Men these days were just… different Maybe I watched too h in ter for when it came to a man Or maybe it could be that a man raised me, and I watched for twenty-six years how my father went out of his way every day to be a perfect husband for my mother Every Monday, he still sent her flowers to the church office, and ood husbands likeless

The thing is, what I wanted in ato be insecure when it came to my successes because I really didn’t need a e, or at least three or four years older, and that’s only because I wanted so that I don’t already know, you know? That isn’t to say I couldn’t learn froer than me, but ultimately, I just wouldn’t want to be the older one in the relationship; I was very firm on that

I hate to write certain men off, but I also didn’t want a man with children It’s so crazy because I loveeee children I love children so much; that’s one of the reasons I decided to become a pediatrician in the first place Whateverfor ether, and having kids happened to be one of those things That, and I wanted the e for us both

I didn’t need to have the most handsome man in the world, and he didn’t have to be insanely rich As long as he was good enough for h money to somewhat be a provider, I would be okay If push ever came to shove, I could always take care of myself Let my father hear me say this, and he’ll probably have a heart attack because he preaches daily how aor even et it because my father has always been a provider for ouroutwas too expensive to fully rely on just one person

At twenty-six years old, I was a virgin, and I still wore ; I felt like there were nountil I was married to have sex To them, it was childish I know this for a fact because I have entertained guys in one on a few dates after college Right after I announce that I’oes left I had one guy get up fro to wait until e to have sex

Is sex that good that a man can’t wait for it? It’s like, et a wo to be the

type of woive it up beforeif, because I was steadfast in my beliefs, I promise you that this man has to be almost perfect I mean, the male version ofI’ve had some of the most handsome men try to talk to me, but if you can’t respect what I’o on our way

I had visuals of what I expected sex to be like As Imy free time, I liked to watch romance movies, but I often felt like those passion filledin a sense I re a conversation with otten back fro mind wanted to kno the sex was because, just like in before she jumped the broo to be okay, then I could wait

The way I like to keep myself busy, half the tiin in the first place Peoplefor me to be this old and hadn’t had sex yet, but I’ll take this kind of e as special as sex, I could wait for it

My patient, Destiny, was under the iet stuck with a needle this afternoon I knew that hy she was crying It hy all my little patients cried when they saw me; they kneas the one who ordered the shots You would think they would cry when they saw the nurses, since those were the ‘bad guys,’ who actually had to stick them with the needle