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This was a very good book about a doctor who delivered his own twins. Afraid of his wife being terribly hurt by the Downs Syndrome with which one of the twins was born, he immediately gave the child to his nurse and asked her to take the baby to a home for retarded children. He told his wife the girl baby had died at birth.
The story follows both the family as the boy baby matures, and the nurse as she disappears and builds a life in another city, raising the girl baby as her own. There is the wall that rose between the doctor and his wife; her continuing sense of the girl's presence; the son's feeling that his father didn't love him; the doctor's obsession with photography, trying to capture each moment forever; and the development of the girl as the nurse eventually marries.
It is a realistic picture of the human condition, with redemption and hope at the end. Truly a book worth reading.
The story follows both the family as the boy baby matures, and the nurse as she disappears and builds a life in another city, raising the girl baby as her own. There is the wall that rose between the doctor and his wife; her continuing sense of the girl's presence; the son's feeling that his father didn't love him; the doctor's obsession with photography, trying to capture each moment forever; and the development of the girl as the nurse eventually marries.
It is a realistic picture of the human condition, with redemption and hope at the end. Truly a book worth reading.
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