Chevelle Hallback Wants the Boxing World to Know “I’m Not Done Yet!”

 

“The question everyone keeps asking is, ‘Why are you still boxing?’ At the age that I am, most people think this is where the story ends. But I feel retirement isn’t determined by other people’s opinions. It’s determined by your purpose,” insists Chevelle Hallback, who turns 55 in September and has won seven world titles in four weight classes during a career that has spanned twenty-nine years and counting. In fact, her victory over Yamila Reynoso in March 2024 earned Chevelle the NBA world welterweight title, making her the oldest boxer in the sport’s centuries-long history to accomplish such a feat.

You might think those would all be reasons sufficient enough for Hallback to call it quits. Think again. And make no mistake, this is no paint by numbers picture of an aging fighter declining to listen to reason or fooling themselves into believing they can turn back time. This is about persevering with dignity and a clear objective and, more importantly than that, honoring a deathbed pact. But don’t take my word for it. Let Chevelle Hallback herself tell you why this matters so much to her. And, by extension, why it should matter to you too. 

“Not Done Yet isn’t about refusing to age. And I am in no way trying to prove 54 is the new 24. Even though I make it look like it is. But it’s about refusing to let age define you, fear define you, failure define you, and society deciding when your purpose expires. I am proving that purpose does not have an expiration date,” Hallback explains. “Not Done Yet is bigger than me. It’s a movement. That’s when people realize Not Done Yet belongs to them too. For seniors it means, ‘I still have purpose.’ Not Done Yet. The people over 40 who thought it was too late to start over in life. Not Done Yet. The person who’s afraid to start. Not Done Yet. The young boxer watching. Not Done Yet. Basically inspiring people to keep pursuing what God has called them to do. I want people to understand that this isn’t a comeback story. Because I never left. This is simply the next chapter.”

Chevelle’s story is a fascinating one that is still being told in real time. She is living the kind of life movies are made of, so it’s no wonder that a generationally beloved fight film was what first sparked the imagination of the young girl from Florida who mustered up the courage to prove to herself, and to the world, that a person from humble origins can defy the odds and achieve extraordinary things.     

“My love for boxing began at the tender age of five when my mother took me to see Rocky,” Chevelle tells me. “I will never forget it. Rocky was taking a beating, and my mother became so caught up in the fight that she stood up in the middle of the movie theater, shouting at the screen, ‘Hit him back! Hit him back!’ The excitement in that theater was contagious, and something awakened inside of me. From that day forward, I fell in love with the idea of boxing.”

This was only the beginning. The first signal of a transmission being sent from somewhere in the universe, summoning Chevelle to answer the call and commence her search for a higher purpose. The next message would be coming soon.  

“Two years later, when I was seven years old, it was like history repeated itself. It was 9:00 at night, and I was supposed to be in bed asleep when I suddenly heard my mother yelling from her bedroom, ‘Hit him back!’ Those words instantly took me back to that day in the movie theater,” Hallback continues. “I jumped out of bed, ran into my parents’ room, and there, on the big floor-model television sitting on the floor, was another boxing match. This time it wasn’t a movie. It was Muhammad Ali versus Leon Spinks in their second fight. I stood there completely captivated. As I watched, I found myself bobbing and weaving, throwing punches through the air as if I were in the ring myself. I went to bed that night wishing I could be a boxer because, what I watched on TV, I just knew I could do all of that. I didn’t realize it then, but that night would shape the course of my life. Deep down, I believed I could be great.”

Despite the trailblazing efforts of female boxers like Lady Tyger, Caroline Svendsen, Sue Fox, Theresa ‘Princess Red Star’ Kibby, Cora and Dora Webber, and Shirley ‘Zebra Girl’ Tucker in the 1970s and 80s when Chevelle was growing up, the fight game still had little if anything to offer aspiring women. That was about to change, however. The mainstream media attention lavished upon Christy Martin beginning in 1996 resulted in a gravitational pull that brought an impactful new generation of women into boxing’s orbit. And they made damn sure it stayed that way.     

“Eighteen years later, when opportunities for women finally began to emerge, I walked into a boxing gym for the very first time at 24 years old and began the journey that would change my life forever,” says Hallback. Not everyone initially saw eye to eye with Chevelle when it came to supporting her mission to become a professional boxer. “My biological father is deceased. My stepfather, my daddy, has been in my life since I was two years old. Now, my mother had a real problem with it because I am her daughter. My daddy didn’t really say much about it. Other members of my family was like, ‘You have beautiful teeth, why risk getting them knocked out?’ But once they saw how good I was at it, oh boy! Everybody was in my corner.”

Regarding the question of amateur experience, Chevelle tells me she had none. “I trained and went to two amateur fights but could not get a fight. So I turned pro. It was on the job training for me,” she said. Chevelle ‘Fists of Steel’ Hallback made a statement right out of the gate, scoring a first-round technical knockout of fellow novice Connie Plosser on February 21, 1997 at Miami’s Mahi Temple Shrine Auditorium with future heavyweight Shannon Briggs fighting in the main event. Blissfully unaware of it at the time, a trial by fire awaited Chevelle in her second bout. 

“After my professional debut, which lasted all of about 30 seconds, my manager and trainer received a call about a six-round televised fight in Texas,” recalls Hallback. Promoted by Top Rank, the broadcast would be headlined by a super-featherweight world championship showdown between titleholder Azumah Nelson and challenger Genaro Hernandez, with the WBC belt changing hands by split decision. “The promoter said my opponent, Lucia Rijker, was around my height, in my weight class, and had only three professional boxing matches. The purse was $5,000. Now, to put that into perspective, I had just made $400 for my first four-round fight. Going from $400 to $5,000, plus the opportunity to fight on television? To me, that wasn’t even a decision. It was a dream. I had just knocked out ‘Ms. King Kong,’ and I was riding high. I accepted the fight immediately.”

With little time to deal with the consequences, a reality check or two would rear their heads soon enough and bring Chevelle back down to earth. “The problem was, I wasn’t training. I had just fought, so I was celebrating. I wasn’t back in the gym. I wasn’t running. I wasn’t preparing for another fight because I wasn’t expecting one so soon,” Hallback admits. “My first fight was in February, and the Rijker fight was scheduled exactly one month later in March. Another thing people should know about me is that I didn’t really follow women’s boxing back then. I studied the male fighters because they were the fighters I wanted to model my style after. So when they told me I was fighting Lucia Rijker, the name meant absolutely nothing to me. I had never heard of her.” Hallback’s lack of awareness regarding her upcoming opponent wouldn’t last long.

“Then came the night before I was supposed to leave for Texas. An HBO special came on television. Guess who it was about? Lucia Rijker,” remembers Chevelle. “They showed highlights of her fights, one knockout after another. As I watched, I remember thinking, ‘Wait a minute...I think that’s the girl I’m fighting.’ I immediately called my trainer. ‘Coach, what’s the name of the girl I’m fighting?’ He hesitated for a second and said, ‘I think her name is Rijker.’ I said, ‘Turn to HBO. Right now.’ He did. Silence. Finally, I asked, ‘Is THAT the girl I’m fighting?’ His response wasn’t reassuring. Instead, he said, ‘Yeah...what’s the problem? You scared of that girl?’ I told him, ‘No. I’m not scared of anybody.’ And I wasn’t. But there’s a difference between being scared and being realistic.”

Honest self-assessment is as integral to a boxer’s development as consistent roadwork, quality sparring, intuitive coaching, and good nutrition. “I knew I wasn’t on her level—not because I lacked heart, but because I lacked experience. On paper, Lucia only had three professional boxing matches. What nobody told me was that she was already one of the greatest kickboxers in the world with well over 100 professional kickboxing fights. She had years of elite combat experience that didn’t show up on her boxing record,” Chevelle says. “By then, I had already signed the contract. Backing out wasn’t an option in my mind. I didn’t want to be labeled unreliable or be blackballed this early in my career. So I honored my word and got on the plane. When the bell rang, something happened that surprised almost everyone. I won the first round. I won the second round. The third round was even. Then reality caught up with me. By the fourth round, I had absolutely nothing left,” she confessed. “I wasn’t exhausted because I lacked heart. I was exhausted because I hadn’t been training. I hadn’t been running. I hadn’t prepared for a six-round war against one of the most experienced combat athletes on the planet. The only thing holding me up at that point was pride. Looking back, I truly believe that if I had been in fighting shape, even with the technical advantage Lucia had, I wouldn’t have been stopped. I believe I would have at least gone the distance and possibly lost a decision. Maybe even pulled off the upset.”

To put it mildly, this was a learning experience for Chevelle. There was cause for optimism despite the outcome, but there was also serious cause for concern stemming from a subsequent struggle with depression which was augmented by a revelation of betrayal. Boxing, it goes without saying, is not for the weak-willed or faint of heart.   

“Years later, legendary trainer Freddie Roach (who was working with Rijker at the time) told me something I’ll never forget. He said I was stronger than Lucia on the inside and that I had given both of them a real scare. That meant a lot coming from someone of his caliber,” Hallback says. “After the fight, Lucia herself spoke to me. She told me, ‘Once you really learn how to box, you’re going to be really good.’ I smiled, thanked her, and immediately asked for a rematch. She smiled back and said, ‘I’ll never give you a rematch.’ I’ll let you decide what that mean that meant.”

Being denied a chance at redemption would be a recurring theme for Hallback throughout her career. As it turned out, things took a decided turn for the worse in the days and weeks afterward, as Chevelle explains.

“Later, I learned something that hurt far more than losing the fight. I discovered that my coach had allegedly accepted money under the table to put me in that fight without fully telling me who I was really facing,” she discloses. “That was the day I realized everyone in your corner isn’t always in your corner. It was also the day I knew I needed a new trainer. Looking back now, I don’t regret taking the fight. That night taught me lessons about trust, preparation, business, and belief that no easy victory ever could. It was only my second professional fight, but it helped shape the fighter, and eventually the seven-time world champion, I would become.”

Before she could put those lessons learned into practice, there was the emotional fallout from such a devastating turn of events to contend with. When it seems like the sky is falling, running for cover is a natural reflex. It’s what you do, or don’t do, next that is crucial. How will you react to the crisis at hand? Some days it’s all you can do to pick your head up off the pillow much less pick up the shattered remnants of your life and reassemble them in a way that makes sense and allows you to see with the clarity necessary to move forward, to evolve.   

“Losing to Lucia Rijker affected me more than any punch she landed. For three weeks, I was in a dark place. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t eat. I barely got out of bed. I had been humiliated on national television in front of my family, my friends, and what felt like the entire world. To make matters worse, there was a television show at the time called Extra. Every time they did a story on Lucia, they showed the same clip, her knocking me down. It seemed like I couldn’t escape that fight,” says Chevelle. “I replayed it in my own mind over and over, and every time I turned on the television, there it was again. It felt like the world was reliving my worst night, and I was forced to relive it with them. My family was worried about me. My grandmother was especially concerned. One day she looked at me and said, ‘Baby, maybe you should just leave boxing alone.’ She wasn’t trying to hurt me. She loves me. But hearing those words from my grandmother did something inside of me. I had a long conversation with myself. Was she right? Was boxing really for me? After a lot of soul-searching, I made a decision that would shape the rest of my career. I got out of that bed. I brushed myself off. And I went back to work.”

No doubt there was restructuring to be done, but nothing truly worth having is ever easy to come by. Chevelle is a flesh and blood example of that.  

“The first thing I did was figure out how to separate myself from the manager/trainer who had put me in the Rijker fight under circumstances I didn’t fully understand. I knew if I was going to have a future in boxing, I needed people in my corner who truly had my best interests at heart. Then I became a student of the sport. Not just someone who fought. Someone who studied. I started watching fight tapes every chance I got, looking for a style that spoke to me. That’s when I found Roy Jones, Jr. Man, I wanted to be Roy Jones,” enthuses Hallback. “Everything about him amazed me. His speed, his reflexes, his confidence, his creativity. I studied every move he made. I watched those VHS tapes until I practically wore them out. Then I’d go to the gym and try to imitate everything I had seen. Looking back, Roy Jones didn’t just become one of my favorite fighters, he became one of my greatest teachers even though we had never met.”

Chevelle’s hard work and commitment paid off in the form of two consecutive first-round knockouts, of Judy Mayrand and Bethany Payne respectively, after which a little less than six months had elapsed since the Lucia Rijker fight. The Bethany Payne knockout had occurred in Boca Raton, Florida which was where Bonnie ‘The Cobra’ Canino lived. A black belt in multiple martial arts disciplines and world champion kickboxer who could boast the rare distinction of lasting the full distance against Lucia Rijker, Canino made the move to prizefighting at the beginning of 1996 and had already contested for one world title, in a losing effort opposite Deirdre Gogarty, and won another by beating Beverly Szymanski in her very next fight.   

“Bonnie wasn’t just a world champion. She also owned a boxing gym. After the fight, she invited me to come train with her whenever I was in South Florida. Even though I had lost to Lucia, Bonnie told me she was impressed that I had the courage to take that fight. We developed a friendship built on mutual respect,” says Hallback. “Then something unexpected happened. A promoter in the Fort Lauderdale-Miami area was putting together an all-women’s boxing card. Bonnie was scheduled to headline. I was scheduled to be the co-main event. Then both of our opponents withdrew. The promoter called me. He said, ‘Since both opponents fell out, how would you feel about fighting Bonnie for the world title?’ I was stunned. ‘Wait...Bonnie?’ I honestly didn’t know how to process it. She wasn’t just another opponent. She was my friend. I didn’t even know if fighting a friend was something people actually did. It didn’t seem right to me.”

Being forced to navigate parcels of uncharted territory is commonplace in boxing, just as in everyday life. The question is, do you trust your instincts enough to proceed straight ahead or get creative and plot an alternate route? Hallback preferred the direct approach.

“I asked the promoter, ‘Have you talked to Bonnie yet?’ He said, ‘No. I wanted to ask you first.’ I told him, ‘Talk to Bonnie first. Then call me back.’ Before he ever had the chance, I called Bonnie myself. ‘Did the promoter call you about us fighting each other?’ She said he had. Then she told me something that changed everything. ‘I need to know what you’re going to do because if we’re going to fight each other, I can’t have you coming to my gym.’ I understood that part,” says Chevelle. “Then she added, ‘Because I’m trying to help you, not hurt you.’ She meant it out of respect. But that’s not how I heard it. What I heard was, ‘If we fight, I’m going to hurt you.’ That lit a fire inside me. I remember thinking, ‘Hurt me?’ I didn’t argue. I didn’t try to convince her otherwise. I simply said, ‘Okay.’ She got her answer when she saw me at the press conference.”

Main-eventing an all-female fight card and vying for a world championship (the vacant WIBF featherweight title previously held by Deirdre Gogarty and fought for by Canino) in only her fifth pro bout was a monumental occasion for Hallback. Camaraderie or not, taking this opportunity lightly, or not taking it at all, never entered into the equation.

“From that day forward, I trained harder than I had ever trained before. I found out about the fight in January (1997). We fought in March. The rest is history. I won by TKO. Time has a way of putting things into perspective. After the fight, there were no hard feelings. Bonnie and I remained friends. Whenever I was in the Miami area, I’d stop by her gym, train alongside her fighters, and we’d even spar a few rounds ourselves,” Chevelle recalls. They even fought one another again seven years later, another TKO win for Hallback in what was a one and done comeback for Canino after retiring in 1999. “That’s one of the things I love most about boxing. Before the bell rings, you’re opponents. After the final bell, if it’s done with respect, you can become friends again. Bonnie Canino wasn’t just another name on my résumé. She was part of my journey. She helped me realize that I belonged in the ring with world champions. More importantly, she helped me become one.”

There was much to celebrate after this victory. Not only was Chevelle Hallback a world champion for the first time, but the preparation for her win over Bonnie Canino marked the beginning of a long and prosperous partnership with trainer Luis R. Avila, Sr.

After pitching a four-round shutout against Hayde Nunez, Hallback fell to defeat in two consecutive bouts, both by way controversial majority decisions—the first to unbeaten Canadian (by way of Austria) Doris ‘The Hammer’ Hackl with the IFBA super-featherweight title on the line, and the second to Laura Serrano, the first Mexican female world champion and future hall of famer.     

“Out of my nine professional losses, I truly believe I only lost two of them,” declares Hallback. “I know every fighter thinks they should have gotten the decision, so I don’t expect everyone to agree with me. But there are moments from those fights that have stayed with me for years. Take Laura Serrano, for example. Years after we fought, I saw Laura at the Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame. During our conversation, she looked at me and said, ‘You beat me that night.’ She didn’t have to say that. She had nothing to gain from it. That’s one of the reasons I have so much respect for Laura. It took character to acknowledge that, especially years after the fight.”

Starting in November 2001, Chevelle embarked on an incredible 16-fight unbeaten streak that extended over a 22-month period and included wins over the likes of Alicia Ashley, Layla McCarter, Mitzi Jeter (in back-to-back skirmishes), 1970s trailblazer Britt VanBuskirk, and Melissa Del Valle, picking up the inaugural IBA super-featherweight title along the way. A loss to Mary Jo Sanders briefly halted her momentum but Hallback wasted no time getting back in the win column by beating Bonnie Canino in their rematch a mere fifteen days later. Not even a month after that, Chevelle notched a second win over ‘Amazing’ Layla McCarter, who had gamely competed with an injured hand in their first fight, to capture the WIBA world super-featherweight title which she then defended successfully against Fujin Raika, on the Japanese phenom’s home turf no less, and the criminally underrated Belinda Laracuente.

Like it or not, Holly Holm would become a very familiar face to Chevelle over the next three and a half years, beginning with Holly’s victory over Hallback on May 23, 2007. After grinding out a win in an eight-rounder over Terri Blair, recognized as one of the harder punchers on the women’s boxing scene at the time, Chevelle competed in what can only be described as a pair of instant classics in just over four months. The first, an all-action slugfest against Melissa Hernandez for the vacant IBA world lightweight title, was scored a split draw. Hallback would win the still-unclaimed IBA strap, not to mention the WBAN championship belt (and WBAN Fighter of the Month honors), in her next outing by emerging victorious over then-unbeaten Jeannine Garside in another high octane scrap. In both cases, Chevelle’s co-feature bouts stole the show from headliner and fan favorite Holly Holm, who defeated Belinda Laracuente and Mary Jo Sanders in each main event, respectively.

With a record of 27-5-2 and a growing collection of championship belts to her credit, Hallback earned a rematch against Holly Holm for the vacant WIBA world super-lightweight title. “We fought in her hometown, and when the decision was announced, the crowd actually booed,” says Chevelle, who came into the contest supremely conditioned, as always, despite a hiatus of more than a year and a half. “To this day, you can easily find our first fight online, but our second fight has never been released. In that fight, I even had Holly hurt and stumbling. I believed I had done more than enough to earn the victory.”

Hallback would cross paths with Holly Holm in Albuquerque one final time a little over eight months later. Not for a well-deserved rubber match, unfortunately, but to tough out a split decision over Victoria Cisneros in the chief support bout to Holm’s title defense against Ann Marie Saccurato. There were two huge opportunities just around the corner involving international travel and shots at world titles sanctioned by the big four alphabet organizations. Victories in either of these fights would have catapulted Hallback to the upper stratosphere of women’s boxing and made hers a household name, but they would instead end in letdown and larceny.

Taking to the friendly skies again in May 2011, for a much longer flight this time, Chevelle found herself in Copenhagen, Denmark to challenge Cecilia Braekhus for her unified (WBC/WBA/WBO) world welterweight titles. Three belts for the price of one…if you don’t count the separate sanctioning fees, that is. “The fight with Cecilia Braekhus is another one that still stands out. Sometimes a single photograph tells the story better than words ever could,” says Chevelle, in reference to images of the visible damage done to Braekhus’ right eye midway through the bout. The defending champion maintained control of the early rounds, but Hallback seemingly dictated the pace and landed the more effective punches the rest of the way. The judges unanimously agreed otherwise, and Braekhus retained her titles via unanimous decision. “After that fight, Cecilia told me she would give me a rematch. That rematch never happened,” Chevelle lamented.

“Then came Myriam Lamare in France,” continues Hallback. Having already held the WIBF and WBF versions of the super-lightweight title courtesy of wins over Jane Couch and Ann Saccurato respectively, Lamare’s only three losses to that point had come against Anne Sophie Mathis (twice) and Holly Holm. “After our fight, Myriam was taken to the hospital. Meanwhile, I ended up at her post-fight celebration, surrounded by her own friends and supporters. One after another, people came over to me saying they thought I had won the fight,” says Chevelle, who once again came out on the short end of a unanimous decision on foreign soil, with one judge giving the fight to Lamare by a ludicrous score of 99-91. “When your opponent’s own supporters believe you deserved the decision, that says a lot.”

Periods of lengthy inactivity followed, interrupted sporadically by wins over Dominga Olivo, Victoria Cisneros for a second time (this one by TKO, which earned Hallback the WBF welterweight title), Szilvia Szabados (twice), and future world title challenger Logan Holler.  

“And then there’s Sonya Dreiling. At this point, I don’t even spend much time talking about that one anymore. Anyone who’s watched the fight can make up their own mind,” Chevelle says about her infamous 2022 split decision loss which was judged so ineptly that widespread demand for an immediate return bout bombarded various social media platforms. “There was an entire round where she barely landed a clean punch on me, yet she was awarded the round anyway. I even slowed the footage down frame by frame and posted it so people could see exactly what was and wasn’t landing.” The evidence is there for the world to see and it’s true that even the most jaded skeptic would find difficulty in denying the obvious. As for Dreiling, she backed out of a scheduled appearance on former WBC International lightweight champion Brooke Dierdorff-Millbrook’s podcast No Punches Pulled to offer her perspective on the controversy and turned a deaf ear to the many pleas resounding throughout the boxing community to give Hallback the rematch she rightfully deserved.

“At the end of the day, the record books say those fights were losses. They can’t change how hard I fought. They can’t change what happened inside those ropes. And they certainly can’t change what I know in my heart every time I watch those fights back,” attests Chevelle. “Boxing is scored by human beings, and human beings aren’t perfect. Sometimes you get the decision. Sometimes you don’t. The only thing you can control is how you respond. I chose to keep fighting.”

Except, she almost didn’t. “I want to share something with you,” Chevelle said, prefacing her recollection of the tragic loss that inspired her current mission statement. “My trainer that I had since my 5th pro fight, the one I fought for my very first title against Bonnie Canino, and my last title I just won two years ago, he died June of last year. And on his deathbed, I told him that I was done because I was not going to fight another fight without him.” she revealed. Chevelle and Luis Avila had jointly experienced the breathtaking highs and gut-wrenching lows of a nearly three decade-long journey through the often unforgiving landscape of professional boxing. Just when it seemed as if Hallback’s journey would end with Luis’ passing, Chevelle tells me that he wouldn’t allow that to happen. “On his deathbed, he opened his eyes, looked me straight in my face, and said, ‘No! Not done yet.’”

With that ever present in her mind, Hallback is pounding the pavement and hitting the gym with renewed drive, sometimes sporting a t-shirt that, appropriately enough, shows a 50s-model Chevy truck (Chevy being her nickname) sandwiched between the words I’M NOT OLD. I’M CLASSIC.

Her goal is a lofty one. “I want Claressa Shields before it’s all said and done,” Chevelle says, “and I really believe in all of me that it’s going to happen.” She has been calling out the self-proclaimed GWOAT for at least three years now, so far to no avail. 

“I am a 7-time world champion boxer, fitness entrepreneur, and motivational leader and speaker,” says Chevelle with understandable pride. “I specialize in training women 30 and over in fitness and help them realize they are stronger than they think. And that they’re Not Done Yet.”

Whether or not the Shields fight materializes remains to be seen. Whatever comes next, there are a few things we already know for sure. Chevelle Hallback (34-9-2, 13 KOs) is a sure-fire first ballot hall of famer with her priorities straight, her heart in the right place, a positive attitude that is as infectious as her smile, and a fighting spirit that will not give up, give in, or give out. 

“Winning is an incredible feeling. Every athlete trains to win. Every competitor wants their hand raised. But when I look back on my life, it wasn’t the victories that shaped me the most. It was the losses. The setbacks. The disappointments. The heartbreak. Those were the moments that forged the woman I would become,” Chevelle states in conclusion. “It’s easy to celebrate an undefeated champion. But my story isn’t about being undefeated. It’s about getting knocked down, getting overlooked, getting outscored, getting doubted and refusing to let any of those moments define me. I refused to let a judge’s scorecard, a critic’s opinion, a disappointing night, or someone else’s expectations write the final chapter of my life. Every setback became another reason to get back up. Every obstacle became another opportunity to grow. Every ‘no’ became fuel for my next ‘yes.’ That’s why Not Done Yet isn’t just a slogan. It’s my testimony. It’s the promise I made to myself that no defeat would ever have the final say. Because as long as God gives me breath, as long as I have the strength to fight, and as long as there is purpose left in my life, my story is still being written. I’m Not Done Yet.”