We have all been a valley a girl at some time or another. Walking through valleys of trouble, sorrow, even the shadow of death is something we all can relate to. My experience of being intimately exposed to a violent crime left me distressed, dismayed and perplexed. I became bitter and eventually broken. I didn't see the way out of the darkness---but there was a door of hope cracked open ever so slightly. The light made its way in. I walked through that door---and you can too.