He was a workaholic and long hours away placed the burden of caring for so many children on Micki. The obvious love she has for each is portrayed beautifully in this story. Micki describes her children vividly throughout the book their personalities, their flaws and their strengths. Each time she discovered she was pregnant yet again, there was anger and resentment as another mouth had to be fed. And it wasn’t without heartbreak and sacrifices. She and Butch are presented with many challenges as they start their young lives together as a family. By the time Micki graduated from high school, she was pregnant with their first child. She eloped with her high school sweetheart and had a double wedding with her wacky mother. Writing is therapeutic and in this memoir, Micki Peluso takes us on a journey back through time. Doctors give Micki and Butch, her parents, no hope of her survival. Her neck is broken and spinal cord severed. The book begins in the waiting room at the hospital where Noelle has been taken in August 1981. This is a gripping emotional account of how one mother faced losing a child to a drunk driver. When 14 year old Noelle leaves the house one evening to join her friends at a concert in the park, no one knew it would be for the last time. This is a true story about a tragedy that is every parent’s worst nightmare.
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