![]() Judy wasn't yet born at the time, and her mother and Linda escaped from the wreckage, although not unscathed Donna was not as lucky. Judy Mandel never knew her 7-year-old sister, Donna, because Donna died when a flight bound for Newark airport crashed into the house that her other sister, Linda, lived in with her mother and father. This story is perhaps one of the saddest books I've read lately, and the scary part is, it's nonfiction: a memoir. This is the story of my family's trials and triumphs as a result of a tipping of fate, and my own struggle to live up to the role burned into my psyche from the time my mother first dreamed me up as her salvation. My place in the family was cauterized by the flames. I was conceived as the salve on the burns, to fill the abandoned chair at the gray Formica table. ![]() My other sister, Linda, was burned nearly to death. ![]()
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