From Abuse to Author: Vicksay M. Richardson's Inspiring Story - Interview with Yaya Diamond

<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Virgin-Married-Caused-Treated-Prostitute/dp/1662439725/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1C2BRRUYLNLM&amp;keywords=978-1662439728&amp;qid=1668722088&amp;sprefix=978-1662439728%2Caps%2C269&amp;sr=8-1">From Abuse to Author: Vicksay M. Richardson's Inspiring Story</a> - Interview with Yaya Diamond</p> <p> </p> <p>#blackwomenpodcasters #youtubepodcast #abuse</p> <p>About the Author My name is Vicksay Baby Moten-Richardson; I am the last of fourteen children. I realize now why I am so different in so many ways, not in a bragging way but in a way that God has laid it on my heart to share my life in this book. Not too many people are named Baby. It was not until I was eighteen and graduating from high school when I revealed that my middle name was Baby. When the principal of the school called my name and I walked up to get my diploma, it took over ten minutes to stop the class of 1974 from laughing. What a wonderful memory that was. For many years, I felt like I was a nobody, even though forty-two years ago I bought a new home when I was twenty-two years old with my sister, and she still lives there to this day. I was voted most likely to succeed. I completed high school in three years instead of four. I was number fifty-six in a class of 560, grade-wise. I would have ranked higher, but because I was graduating a year earlier, it caused my ranking to be calculated differently from the students who had attended high school for four years. I received three four-year scholarships to the University of Arizona. I completed a twenty-four-month computerized accounting program in eighteen months while raising four extremely sickly and one very difficult foster child and while running a full-time day care from my home. I took twenty-four classes in those eighteen months and received twenty-three As and one B. Of course, I give God the glory because He is the only one who gives us strength. I was a straight-A student. Since I was in first grade, I have always assisted children with learning disabilities. However,