The Kindest Lie (PDF) (Print)

ItÕs 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. HeÕs eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth toÑand was forced to leave behindÑwhen she was a teenager. She had promised her family sheÕd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past.