Mary Norman and I co-created These Walls Between Us in order to reflect on, and honor, the still-evolving sixty-year connection between us and to chronicle how we came to call each other friends. Though we are close in age, we met in my mother’s kitchen; Mary was the Black domestic worker and I the privileged white daughter. In our thirties, Mary suggested that we write a book about our friendship, and I said yes. While I focused on the writing, Mary co-created the content through visits, phone calls, emails, road trip conversations and, most recently, texting. My work as a co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a widely-selling resource on women’s health and sexuality, had prompted me to face my unexamined biases around class and race. These Walls Between Us offers lessons from my oft-stumbling efforts, as a white woman, to see Mary more fully and to become a more dependable friend. We'd love to visit your book group or anti-racism group via Zoom!