Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1 When I was adopted, I was given new corduroy pants, which I loved fiddling with. I had no idea what was going on, except that it was sad and making Margaret sad. I feared sadness in adults above all things.#2 My father, Joe, was the bright, shining star of my childhood. He was the primary parent of 11 children, and he died from the breast cancer that had spun a cruel, mocking thread through his life for four years.#3 I had a family of eleven children, which was rare in Ireland at the time. I remember my first taste of a banana sandwich, but not the moment I was told Mammy had died.#4 My father had called Phillie and Margaret with the news before he left Belfast, so they could come over to our house and look in on us until he returned. Anne was a saintly woman who tended to the house and its numerous infant contents.