What I Learned From Jane
by Mollie Player /
2017 / English / EPUB
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What I Learned From Jane is the story of how a child born with severe brain damage changed her mother's life.
From the Author
Written as a personal letter to my readers, this book follows the style of"Sometimes Very: How I Overcame Depression Without Experts or Medicine"and "Alone and Together: A Very Short Primer on Happiness."
From the Inside Flap
"After that, someone asked if I wanted to make a Christmas ornament with Jane's hand prints on it, so I did. One of the nurses had also made one for her the day before so I put mine in the box next to hers and we gathered up our things and went home.
When we got home it was about midnight. I still wasn't walking very well and on my way to the door I dropped one of the Christmas ornaments and it broke. David wondered what was taking so long so he came back to find me.
'Are you coming in?' he asked.
I didn't say anything I was just looking at the ground and crying.
He said, 'Oh, the ornament broke.'
Then he took me in his arms and held me for a long time.
Later that night after we had gone to bed I told David that I wasn't sad about losing the ornament.
'It just seemed so symbolic,' I said. 'She's broken.' "
