I’m sitting in my office with Anderson Cooper when he says, “The police say you’re naïve. That gang members take advantage of you.” I always have the same answer at the ready: “How can someone take my advantage when I’m giving it?” (Years later, in another interview with Cooper, this time sitting in our brand-new bakery, he tells me he remembers my answer and uses it himself from time to time with his friends. I thank him and ask if I’m due any royalties.) We so fear being duped, yet much of that comes from being a stranger to our own wounds.
