Dorothy C. Hall lived twenty-one years at Stonewall Jackson Training School, a correctional facility for boys, six to sixteen years of age, in Concord, North Carolina. Her mother and father were Cottage Parents of one of the sixteen cottages. Dorothy, also known to friends as Dottie, takes the reader on her journey from childhood to Duke University where she met her husband, Wayne Hall, of sixty-one years. Widowed at eighty-eight, Dorothy lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in a house she and Wayne bought in 1950. Currently, Dorothy is writing another book, titled Grief.