Here is a little girl who, along with her younger sister, survived each day by paying single-minded attention to their parents' instructions and learning to be breathlessly invisible to the regular and hostile scrutiny of German soldiers. A week after she confronted Duke at the state capitol, Levy again challenged the candidate at a symposium on race relations in New Orleans. When she talks to schoolchildren and other groups, as she often now does, Levy is overwhelmed by the response to her story. Call it serendipity. Call it a fairy-tale ending.
Good things do happen.
And Levy's story still has such a pull on Powell that he hasn't lost his wonderment of it. She is someone we see and talk to every day. She is not a museum piece. In the weeks before the publication of Troubled Memory , Levy confesses she's a tad apprehensive about it all. I knew it was going to happen after all the work that Larry did.