Our lives are full of dichotomies: dark versus light, sin versus virtue, right versus wrong, experience versus innocence, young versus old, childhood versus adulthood, pride versus shame, angels versus demons. Many of us grow up to believe that we are either one version of ourselves or another--black or white--and that there is no in-between. The reality is that we all live in shades of gray. There is darkness and light in all of us. The only way to live freely in this life is to find a balance between the two. We must learn to play with the shadows of what we are so afraid of within ourselves if we are to love and appreciate every part of what shapes us as human beings. There are many facets that make us unique and I have learned to embrace the beautiful and the ugly I have been through. This book is my way of bringing light to my dark experiences so that I may earn back an innocence that I once believed was forever lost.