Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (with Great Hair) (20 page)

The Group Home in Wappingers Falls. Middle-class suburbia at its best. Good times and not so good times.

Me and my two half sisters with Group Home parent.

“My” first dog, Citizen. I loved him to pieces.

My pretty sister Carmen in Puerto Rico, the summer she got tits—ha!

Me, my little cousins, and Tia. Happy times!

Me in high school.

A night out at Florentine Gardens with college friends and a
Soul Train
dancer (middle).

Me and Tito in house in Puerto Rico.

Tupac and me at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1993. We were kindred spirits. I really miss that guy. [CREDIT: Wire Image]

Me, Debi Mazar, Madonna, and Marion Wade at the GMHC AIDS Dance-a-Thon.

1988,
Do the Right Thing
. With Martin Lawrence (in red shirt) in a piece-of-shit rental apartment. Heavy D & the Boyz. On the video set for “We Got Our Own Thang.” [CREDIT: Brian D. Perry for Beezo Photo Archives LLC]

Me and my cousin Sixto on the set of the TV series
House of Buggin’
, starring John Leguizamo.

On the set of
White Men Can’t Jump
. That movie was the most fun I’ve ever had filming. [CREDIT: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation/Photofest]

My ex-husband, Seth Rosenfeld.