I wondered why nothing had been done with the story. My mother was quite a reader and even had a local newspaper column for a time. Surely if she wanted her story shared, she could have done so…or had she just not gotten to it for all those decades? Perhaps she did nothing because it was too painful. My grandmother died while my mother was just a child. Why hadn’t my grandmother done something with her manuscript? (I recently learned that my grandmother was one of Hollywood’s first screenplay writers…more about this, another time). Had her illness kept her from finishing her work? So many questions…