The Coldest Winter Ever (pgs1-134)

     This is a book by Sister Souljah about a girl named Winter Santiaga. Born and raised in Brooklyn New Yorks was winter raised as its princess and who she thought herself would soon be its queen. Winter was born in one of Brooklyn's worst snow storms ever and thats how she got her name. Her father was Ricky Santiaga  the biggest drug dealer in Brooklyn. She was truly a ghetto princess and everyone who new her father treated her like one.
     Winter's mother had her at 14 years old which she thought was fine because her man soon to be husband could support them all plus more. This was trouble for disaster because that was what Winter's mother tought her. Winter's mother did not work and Winter only went to schl when she felt like it. So her mother tought winter to be a miny her. She tought Winter not to date people below her and to use men  for what they could give her. With this type of teachings Winter thought that she was grown at a young age- seven to be exact. This might have been nessacery for a drug dealers daughter who was over protective. She learned that she kept family business in the family. Winter also knew to keep her father and mother's teachings seperate. This because Winter's father would kill or cut anyone who looked at his daughter to long and her mother tought her that this attention was good. With this being so Winter lost her virinity at 12. Winter had 3 little sisters who her parents made her watch since Winter wouldnt go to school. There were twin girls and another girl 3 years older than the twins who also felt that she was more grown than she actually was.
     With years going by and with the Santiaga business growing they moved out of Brooklyn. Winter and her mother knew that this was because of more than expanding drug rings. So now stuck in Long Island Winter and her mother were goiing crazy being isolated after all they were ghetto queens who needed their loyal followers to be intertained. The kids were fine because they all had huge rooms to intertain them. So in the last sraw Winter's mother demanded her new car of which wasnt in her driveway when she woke up. Santiaga was getting it after he made a quick "run". He new it was dangerous but his wife wanted to go so bad that he took her along. This is when everything started to go wrong. New people on the old block started coming up and wanted to test Santiaga, so on his run His wife got shot in the face. From there is just a matter of weeks Santiaga was arrested, the girls were taken away, Winter's mom was slowly goinging crazy, and Winter the ghetto queen in training was left out to survive on her own. If she listened to her father's lessions more than her mother's than this might not have been sso hard. So after it was set up for Winter to get some more cash she started thinking, "A winter outfit was gonna make me feel alright" (Souljah 118). So she spent the majority of her money on new clothes before she met with one of her father's workers called Midnight who she had the biggest crush on of which was definately not mutual. So when he met up with her there was a problem and now he could not give her the cash. So again she was trying to live off of her "sugar daddy" of which her mther always tought her to have even though her mother said she didnt need one because her husband was everything. Winter kept making mistakes that her father always warned her about. So she would have to fix that mistake until Mdnight could get they money that ws stored away that the FBI didnt know about.