This time they are arguing about a deck of cards, Crazy Eights, a Christmas gift, suddenly my granddaughter's favorite Christmas gift, a deck now missing one 4, one 6, and two 9s. How did this happen?
"I left them right here, Mimi, on my bed in this closed box," says Megan, "and he opened it and threw the cards all over the room…
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For a long time after my granddaughter Lucy, who has Down syndrome, was born, I looked at healthy, typical babies with envy. They were everywhere — at the mall, at the playground, cooing, smiling, sitting up, playing patty-cake, walking, talking, meeting every developmental milestone right on time, their perfection a constant…
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The real woman's name is Andree de Jongh. I have been saying it over and over to make up for all the times I never said it, never knew it. I wouldn't know it now if Kristin Hannah hadn't written "The Nightingale," a work of historical fiction based on this woman's life about a world at war and what war does to people..
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