Must I tell . . . is a story about Renee's life tragedies; you'll find that most of Renee's life she had to fight with depression. She fought with being loved or feeling like love was not for her. She stopped trusting in men after being betrayed by her father. When she was a little girl, she thought that she was loved dearly, but didn't realize that the type of love that she was getting was the wrong type of love. At age seventeen, she was gang-raped by a group of men, including the father of her lost child. She felt as if her life was at its end. But she had a baby girl to fight to live for.