This was a very good book -- I couldn't put it down (even when soaking in the tub)-- It was again very revealing of conditions where people were institutionalized in horrible conditions because they were considered "feeble-minded" or had some disability where they were considered abnormal. The t...
"Mentally retarded." Words we said about my sister, but never said to her.As children it hadn't mattered to Rachel Simon that there was "something wrong" with her sister Beth. Beth was only eleven months younger and they were good playmates. But over the next two decades their lives went very d...
After nineteen years of one of the most ridiculous courtships in the history of love, I move back in with Hal, and five days later, on a sunny May afternoon, I put on my wedding gown, he dons a suit, and we walk hand-in-hand through the city streets until we reach the justice of the peace. Hal is...