Some of us were never meant to blend in. We were born to break barriers.
 
Growing up in poverty and dysfunction in rural Alabama, Nicole Pfister was surrounded by a family shaped by generational fear, lack, and the quiet certainty that things would stay the way they had always been. No one in her immediate maternal family had ever earned a college degree. No one expected her to be the first.
She became the first. And then she earned a graduate degree too.
 
Never Meant to Fit In is the true story of a girl raised largely by a grandmother whose love became the foundation for everything, then uprooted into a mother's home where she was a stranger in every sense of the word. It is the story of navigating middle school and high school alone, of holding on to faith when nothing else made sense, of choosing a different outcome when every circumstance pointed toward the same path as everyone else.
 
This is not a polished success story told from a comfortable distance. It is testimony, raw, specific, and written for the ones still in the middle of the fight.
 
If you have ever been told you would never finish school, never amount to much, never break free of what your family passed down to you, this book was written for you.
If you are a first generation college student wondering whether someone else has walked this road and come out the other side, this book was written for you.
If you are a woman of faith searching for testimony that does not skip over the hard years, this book was written for you.
 
The road to purpose often begins exactly where comfort ends. And being different, being the one who was never meant to fit in, is often the very thing that leads you to who you were always meant to be.
 
Never Meant to Fit In: A Story of Grit, Growth, and Rising Beyond Circumstance
 
 
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