This is my first published book entitled, “…And My Soul Cried Out!” I selected this as my title because I was an abused foster child, and it was only as an adult and getting into mental health therapy that I was able to begin find a measure of healing as a man, as a writer and as a poet. My favorite quote is by Herbert Ward who said what I believe is one of the truest quotes ever expressed… “Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”