"If I know anything at all, its that a wall is just a wall"

This is a love story.

There's this book I read last summer, and to say the least, amazing. Asha Bandele is poet, writer, and major contributer to Essence Magazine. This book is a memoir of how she fell in love with her husband while he was and remains incarcerated through their relationship. Bandele paints a picture with her words from inception to end. Love and relationships of course have ups and downs, but this rocellection of lonely months turned to years and monitered visits give a whole new meaning to strength.

"This is a love story, the one not generally discussed in polite or even public conversation. But if there's one thing that I do know about myself, it's that I know I hate secrets, that secrets mean shame, and that I am not now, nor will ever be, ashamed that I am a woman who has loved someone, and that someone has loved me... And even though so many people have asked me if I have lost my mind, if I am lonely, or desperate. Even though so many people have wondered if I was having a crisis, or determined that I was just going through a phase, I will continue continue loving the man I am loving. I will love him even though he's got an ugly past, skeletons, and sorrow. Even though he doesn't have a great job or position or power, and even though he's a prisoner at a maximum-security correctional facility, which my husband, Rashid, is, I will continue loving him.

And this is our story."

I can honestly it's one of those books that can change your heart, or at least your mind.