![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also meets Al, a goodhearted trucker, who she eventually falls in love with and marries, although she always worries that he will leave her and Phoebe.ĭavid wears his past like a weight which he refuses to share with the rest of his family. She creates a network of other parents whose children have Down’s Syndrome, working to achieve educational equality. She eventually finds work as an in-house medical caretaker for a brilliant but senile incorrigible curmudgeon, Leo, and befriends his daughter, Doro. Paul feels as though he cannot connect with his father, and this anger eventually evolves into a passion for guitar.Īt the same time, Caroline-having moved with Phoebe to Pittsburgh, away from David and Norah-has undertaken the difficulty of raising a child with Down’s Syndrome by herself. Similarly, Paul grows up feeling as though their family is always missing someone, as he feels the distance this creates between himself and his father as well as between his father and his mother. ![]() She becomes incredibly depressed and starts drinking heavily as a way to palliate her grief. Believing that Phoebe has died, Norah is in anguish over the loss of her daughter, feeling her absence as tangible grief within the house. ![]()
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