Can someone please tell "forever in blue jeans" girl that she is not going to a Neil Diamond Concert tonight!!!
Tonight I met my hero! We went to hear Immaculee Ilibagiza speak at the Newman Center at DU. We had awesome seats (Thank you Sandra). The night started out with a showing of Immaculee's Diary (her movie) which was 35 minutes long. Then Immaculee spoke for about 45 minutes. After which the crowd was invited to turn in their questions for the Q&A. You can imagine that they had a huge stack of questions and only 5 got answered. They picked mine!!!! I just knew they would. I don't know why (okay I prayed a little) and they picked my question. She sort of laughed when the question was read because I asked about a very small detail of her book (that happened to effect me tremendously) and because of that she said "you can always tell when someone has really read my book when they ask about something like this." After the Q&A we went out to the lobby where everyone lined up for the book signing. Of course I did not have my book with me...I gave it away because I was so anxious for others to read her story. So I had nothing in my hands and I was nowhere near the front of the line when the line did this weird sort of shift and then suddenly within seconds I was in front. I'm totally serious. There I was standing in front of her and I got to tell her how much she means to me and how she has inspired me and that she is in my heart every single day. Oh, and Mark got pictures!
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