Best-selling novelist Isabel Allende discovers the great gift of giving through the loss of her beloved daughter.
By Isabel Allende
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my twenty-eight-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.
I'm talking about is showing your appreciation. And this includes showing appreciation for yourself, other people, situations you're in throughout your life, and everything else in between.
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