Leslie: What's so interesting to me is that I wanted to make the book about being a widow from my perspective. It's just the way my life is. We had a lot in common, like All My Children. We had things that were not in common, like our races or our religion. Those just kind of go into our story, not in a neon sign way, but that's just part of my life. I think that there were people who read it who were like, does it have to be so much about race? I'm like, yeah, because that's part of what it was. It's not about race, but it is in a way because that's part of our existence. Also, it's a way that people responded to us when we walked into a room together or did not respond because they didn't think that we were together because they're dumb. It was 2015.