As a baby, Kenia attended the Fort Pierce Child Development Center, as her birth parents were citrus migrant workers. Ms. Brown fell in love with her as teachers kept telling her Kenia was her twin. Through a series of God’s will events, Kenia was privately adopted by Ms. Brown when she was thirteen months old. By the time Kenia was three years old, Ms. Brown had taught Kenia to read, write and encouraged her love of reading by providing dictionaries, encyclopedias and a treasury of classic literature. She states, “Kenia always loved to read and write. She was reading novels and writing paragraphs at an early age. She also had quite an imagination and every night requested I read, Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! by Dr. Seuss.”