Her daughter doesn't need sympathy and doesn't want it, Hernandez-Blanchard said. Punctuating that sentiment, Becca was ready to end the conversation. Her dad, Martin Alonso Martinez of Milwaukee, was stopping by to take her out to eat, and she was anxious to go. Then her difference would be normal. Becca's already figured that out.
Nobody's the same.
Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on May 14, 2001. All rights reserved. Produced by Journal Interactive .