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Lately, there has been a great deal of focus on male-female relationship issues, particularly in the African-American community. Lessons Learned:While Looking for Love in All the Wrong Faces addresses many of these issues in a gritty, sometimes heart wrenching and always entertaining manner. Wharton exemplifies a woman who shares painful life experiences in an attempt to spare others the pain of relationship drama.

Sharing actual personal relationship experiences (including date rape) in which she struggled to find quality romance while wrestling with low self-esteem issues, Wharton’s style is real, poignant, and satiric. “Out of all the faces you can look to for love,” said Wharton. “The most important face you will ever look to for love is your face.”

The characters in Wharton’s book run the gamut of the Bad Boy, the Sugar Daddy, the Nut Case and even the Drug Addict. On the surface, the characters may appear to be stereotypical, but Wharton provides each with his own distinct personality as she crafts a masterpiece of women’s non-fiction addressing current male-female relationship issues. Some ‘lessons’ readers will learn: The Devil Loves Church Too, Never Recycle Men, and Leave Rehabilitation to the Experts.