"It"s been over ten years since Big was killed. I grieved for him for a very long time. And then, as time passed, the icy wall of grief surrounding my heart began to thaw and I began to heal. I remarried, had more children, and continued to record and release more music. I continued to live my life. And while I can never discount the time I spent with Big, I"ve never felt the need to live in the past. But sometimes, I still find myself thinking about Big being rushed the hospital, and I break down in tears. It"s not just because we hung up on each other during what would be our last telephone conversation. And it"s not because I am raising our son, a young man who has never known his father. It"s partly all of those things. But mainly it"s because he wasn"t ready to go. His debut album was called Ready to Die. But in the end, he wasn"t. Big never got a chance to tell his story. It"s been left to others to tell it for him. In making the decision to tell my own...