title: Peeling Back the Layers: A Story of Trauma, Grace and Triumph
author:  Lawayne Childrey 
description: Birmingham, Alabama native, Lawayne Orlando Childrey is a national Edward R. Murrow award winning journalist. He has also won numerous Mississippi Associated Press Broadcasters awards. In 2014 the Alabama Community College System named Childrey as one of its most outstanding alumnus in the institutions fifty year history. As a result, the ACCS awarded a $5,000 scholarship in Childrey's name to a deserving Alabama high school senior. During the same year, Childrey was named as alumnus of the year for Jefferson State Community College in Birmingham. He currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee and serves as a national Voice Over artist, HIV/AIDS activists and motivational and keynote speaker. For booking information contact: lawaynechildrey@gmail.com Facebook: Lawayne Orlando Childrey Twitter: @LChildrey
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  ## [Dedication](nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-1)
  
  
  To Youval—somewhere between silent hikes in Scotland, midnight whiskey in
  Paris, and dipping our toes into several seas, you’ve been a revelation.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [Epigraph](nav.xhtml#r_idParaDest-2)
  
  
  The queen kept her troops safe in solace, until a time came when she finally
  gave birth to a child. The troops believed that this was the start of a new
  era, but when the babe was born, her skin broke like glass.
  
  
  —Iana Abernathy, _The Last of Our Secrets_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Dedication](9780062084187_Dedication.xhtml#_idParaDest-1)
  
  
  * [Epigraph](9780062084187_Epigraph.xhtml#_idParaDest-2)
  
  
  * [Contents](nav.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Prologue](9780062084187_Prologue.xhtml#_idParaDest-3)
  
  
  * [One: Eilidh](9780062084187_Chapter_1.xhtml#_idParaDest-4)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Two: Will](9780062084187_Chapter_2.xhtml#_idParaDest-6)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Three