What is the difference between Fiction and Reality?
The answer is, Fiction has to make sense.
The photo above is of the daughter of my co-worker and friend Raschelle Gage. Victoria was born on October 26; she had a number of health issues, including Trisomy 18 Syndrome, and was born a month premature, and the doctors warned Raschelle (or Shelly as we all know her) that Victoria would probably not survive, but for weeks the little girl survived, defying the odds and hanging in there past the time the doctors gave her.
Then on November 28 - Thanksgiving morning, of all days - Shelly got up to feed her newborn and discovered Victoria had lost her brave fight and had gone to be with the angels.
I don’t think I, or any man, can understand what a blow this is to a mother: to carry a child to birth, to have the hope of the child living in spite of what the “experts” tell her... and then to have that new life taken from her. Shelly was calling Victoria her “miracle baby” and for the short time she was here it looked as if that was what she was. We all entertained the hope that this child would keep defying the odds and grow to adulthood... but it wasn’t to be.
Rest in the arms of the angels, little Victoria.
