This American Girl's Dream hasn't been for the Faint of Heart: The Unfiltered Reality of Small Business. The flower girl. The reality of the "American Dream" is something I think about often, especially lately while helping a friend launch her own business. Seeing her at the starting line takes me back to where my own journey began. My "American Girl Dream" began not in a boardroom but on a corner at the top of the street where my childhood home was located when I was five ye