Gloria Naylor — American Novelist born on January 25, 1950,

Gloria Naylor is an American novelist... (wikipedia)

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was going past the road on my house. And so, these cars began to surveil me. People began to follow me around, and it did, it was very disrupting to think that your privacy was being violated, and for no reason that I could come up with.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.
Life is accepting what is and working from that.