Lashelle Bolton bonded with the daughter she gave birth to at age 14 by taking her deep into the Sahara Desert in north Africa. She says she felt the presence of God. As she looked at waves of endless sand stretching out in all directions she thought, “The same Creator that made all this made me.” It was a long odyssey for the Bronx woman who found out she was going to be a teen mom in a Long Island group home. A mystical experience that left her feeling as small as a speck, yet inextricably connected to the cosmos.

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