Hello. I'm in Fort Green, Brooklyn, and I'm meeting up with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer Andrea Elliot.

Andrea and I are standing on a sidewalk in front of an imposing red brick building.

There are leafy trees scattered around on a trimmed lawn, and it turns out that this place

means a lot to Andrea.

What an incredible privilege to share this space with you.

Oh my God.

This pavement we're standing on is like sacred grounds as far as I'm concerned.

I know. Are you teary?

Yeah. What's going on?

It's just bringing back a lot.

Tell me, tell me everything that you're feeling.

Well, this is where it all began.

In fact, Andrea's life is forever intertwined with this location.

It's a shelter known as the Auburn family residence.

A rusted black fence surrounds the building. I can see

benches near the entrance and hear kids playing nearby. It looks like a welcoming

place but it wasn't that way when Andrea first came here.

The story begins more than a decade ago, when Andrea began to report on to Sonny Coates,

an 11-year-old girl who is black and who lived in that shelter.

Andrea, who is an investigative reporter for the New York Times, also met Tassani's family at that shelter.

And that he published a series of articles at the New York Times about Dasani in 2013 and she kept on reporting on her and her family for more than eight years.

That reporting material eventually turned into a book

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