![]() ![]() A brilliant, in-depth, three-dimensional look at different views on the same life event that every person should stop to consider when they are lost in their own throes of personal loss or pain. It's about arguments and reconciliations, coming to terms with dead and dying parents and accepting that life isn't always what it appears to be on the surface. ![]() It shows the way Oliver's family annexes Silvia as one of their own and the love she finally finds, the family she finally feels part of, and the family she creates with Oliver. Her anger at a father who didn't know how to parent two young girls after his wife, the love of his life died, and how Silvia felt he had let her down. The book chronicles Silvia's life, her anger at not knowing her mother, who died to young. The story takes you through their lives from the time Silvia first meets Oliver, the love of her life, to Oliver's last breath at age 85, and there isn't a dull moment all through it. ![]()
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