In a moment of reflection, Oprah prepares for the most exhilarating part of this day, meeting with the girls. "This past year, when I realized that this is going to happen, I started dreaming about them. And in my dream, they would be blurred. I'd be trying to see their faces...I would ask their names, and just as they went to speak, I would awaken," she says. "Yesterday I met a few of them for the first time. I realized those were the names, those were the faces in my dream."
These young faces exude hope, possibility, promise. "Yesterday I asked an 11-year-old, 'Why do you want to come to this school?' and she said, 'It is my tomorrow!' They are already wonderful. They are my dream girls."
From the
January 2007 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
