But if my years on this earth have taught me anything, it’s this: the kind of person you are inside is a heap more important in the long run than the rights you have, where you sit, what you’re called, and whether you vote. As I sit here telling our story, or should I say getting ready to start it—though it’ll take more than just this first book to get it told, and so far I’m just trying to get my thoughts moving in the right direction—I look down at my wrinkled brown hands on the arms of my chair,