title: Own Your Truth: "Living Life According to Your Own Truth and Your Own Terms"
author: Wendy Poteat
description: When I first met Wendy ten years ago as a student in our Guilford College classroom, her gifts as a writer, teacher, speaker, and vocalist, and her incisive wit, warmth, and honesty were captivating to me, her professor, and to her fellow students. Over the years I have known her, she has been brave and powerful in her witness to what she finds to be true, in her advocacy in her childrens public schools, and in the criminal justice system, in her teaching, in her workplace, and with her family. I am delighted that she is sharing her story and her abundant gifts in this book. I know that her words will be inspiring and healing to many.
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  Sarazen’s claim
  
  
  Book One
  
  
  ![](../images/00001.jpeg)By
  
  
  Isabel Wroth
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  
  The completion and publishing of this book would not be possible without my
  two most amazingly supportive, talented, inspirational and beloved friends.
  Sheila, and Shelda. You’re the very best, and life would never have been the
  same without you. Muwah!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2016 by Isabel Wroth
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Any similarity to real events, people, or
  places are entirely coincidental. All rights reserved.
  
  
  This book may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without the
  permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations used for
  review.
  
  
  All quotations used in this book are part of public domain works and/or
  translated copies existing in public domain. The author acknowledges the
  trademarked status of products referred to in this book. Trademarks have 