About The BookReflections is definitely a good read and breathes with Victoria's heart & soul. Now a middle aged woman she sometimes still finds herself trying to feel comfortable in her own skin. Trying hard to accept her imperfections while admitting that she is emotionally damaged. It has truly been a labor of love, time & tears for the writer during the 7 years its taken her to critic its colorful contents. It lays out a true-life story of a little girl lost and the many characters involved.Starting back around the 1930-40's there's a brief summery of her grandparent's life. Thus laying out a background of how her parents grew up, met each other, how and where her life started.In the beginning the pages tell about the many obstacles of a handicapped child, who often felt unwanted, as she struggled to grow into a teenage girl in the mix of her parent's divorce. Along the way you'll find a lot of action, humor, sadness, life threatening danger, death, sex, guns and yes, even high speed chases. It continues into her uninhibited years as an unguided wild young woman. Parts of it will warm your heart as the writer reflects on the happy times through it all where she felt love. Other parts will touch your soul with sadness as you share the many times her heart was broken. All the while you'll anxiously be awaiting the next page to turn or the next character to step into the story. At times you may find yourself rooting for her as she fights her battles. Maybe you'll even find yourself taking an inventory of your self worth and look in your mirror to say, " I am blessed."Her past in some ways has taken its toll, but she has also somehow partially emerged a wiser more cautious woman. Now she's a complicated mixture of powerful and vulnerable. Today with a broken heart still beating, it has required years of patience and courage to open doors into her unedited past and share this story. It will warm your heart, yet touch your soul with sadness. You will read about a little girl lost on a relentless search for love & acceptance. Sometimes finding it, only to have it taken away, or finding herself being discarded.Victoria feels through it all, at least she did do something right, a true selfless act; she truly loved those few that were dear to her.