The doctor hadn't listened to her. She'd waited too long, and the baby had died inside her before being born. When they told me about the son my grandmother had given birth to, who was stillborn, I better understood how much suffering and injustice there had been in those years.
Month: December 2025
A Family Memoir in Progress — Episode 8: Isabella’s Dad
A shell fragment took away part of his skull and doctors gave him six years to live—he lived eighty-four with a steel plate in his head, carrying inside war stories he told only once, under a pergola in Abruzzo, when he finally found the courage to open doors that had stayed closed for decades.
EYES TO SEE 