If I could save one other parent from having to feel this way, I'd be so happy. It is so hard,'' she sighs. It's almost like you forgot it happened for a brief moment. She gazes far away, through the kitchen window to the fields beyond. My daughter is dead.
Tears sprinkle across a little girl's life story in pictures.
Sonya sighs, rubs a wadded-up tissue across her eyes. Her fingers caress the assorted images, chooses one. First picture ever.'' A wailing baby is shown just after birth, streaked with blood and still attached to the umbilical cord. My New Year's Eve baby. She was the last baby born in Venango County in 1988.