This post was written by Hatchet staff writer Delaney Walsh.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor treated the audience in Lisner Auditorium Friday night like old friends as she spoke candidly about the life experiences detailed in her new book.

Sotomayor – or “Sonia from the Bronx,” as she asked to be introduced – paced through the aisles of the auditorium as she spoke, pausing to smile and wave between reading excerpts from her book, “My Beloved World,” which was released this week.

“What I have finally figured out…is that I didn’t have to fill in the chasm. And I didn’t have to do it then,” she said. “What they had was very special, and what I had growing up was equally special.”

Sotomayor also touched on topics ranging from her childhood diagnosis with diabetes to her father’s alcoholism.

“Well I knew [I had reached my goals] when I first became a judge,” Sotomayor said. “I knew I had reached my fantasies when I got to the Supreme Court.”