“I said, ‘This is who Carmen is now,’ and it really looked beautiful,” she recalled. “Although it didn’t look anything like her, it was her face.”
October 26, 2013
"At first she wanted to faint as she stared at the new face, smooth and freckled, stitched to her daughter’s pale scalp."
"But when [Carmen] Tarleton started talking in her old familiar voice — 'Can’t you just get in here?' — [her mother] relaxed."
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Tough, resiliant woman.
We all fall down, or get knocked down. The quality of our lives is determined but what we do next.
and she found a soulmate to love and cherish her...
remarkable story
ST - some get knocked down harder than others.
And the guy who did this? Words fail.
David,
In some countries men do this to little girls for having the audacity to want to learn to read.
Horrific. I am so glad medical science is helping her.
She is amazing. I love that she took up music and it lead her to a new love. Wow. Remarkable.
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