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Appreciation to the source of all eternal creations.

Thank you to my family. My father, Richard Turney. My mother, Doris Jean. My son, Gregory. My grandparents, Clyde and Emma Turney. My great-grandmother Rebecca Skinner. My brothers, Richard, Clark and Eric. My sister – Adrianne. My nephew and nieces, Richard, Angel, Assyria, Samaria, Megan, and John. My aunts, Christine and Pat. My uncle Donald. My great-aunt Ruby. My cousins Donna, Monica, Michael and Langston. Thank you for a foundation of love.

To my friends and supporters. To those who read, support and enjoy my books. To my church family, Norton Avenue First Baptist Church in Bristol, Pennsylvania where the Rev. James G. Evans III and his beautiful wife Sheila pastor. To my Sigma Gamma Rho sorors. To Tim and Essie Stackhouse, a woman who God used to allow the story of Ruth and Naomi to work itself into my own life. To Helen Crawford (I’ll never forget you walking around the corner those many times just to see how I was doing). To Cormy L. Williams, one of the sweetest women I know. To Willie J. Murray – thank you for the sweet potato pies you made my son. To Mary Lambert, thank you for sound Sunday School lessons.

To Long Walk Up’s editor, Susan Bono – Thank you for sharing your skill and expertise. To everyone who has touched my life in a special way, thank you for your love and support.

Be courageous and take the Long Walk Up! --

Denise

Long Walk Up is a work of fiction. Although the book was read by peoples who have lived in Africa and although the author researched many facts about various customs and regions in the magnificent continent, particularly East Africa, the book is not based upon any single tribe or community within Africa, a place which may perhaps be the mother of all nations. Names to some places in the continent have been fictionalized. That said, the truths about the struggle, a child’s destiny and the limitless power of love are real. And it is with the spirit concealed within these immeasurable truths that we bid you to begin the Long Walk Up.