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<p><p><i>fragile Innocence</i> Is The Story Of A Child Devastated By Pure Chance. This Moving Narrative Of A Father’s Journey To Understand And Accept The Profound Changes In His Daughter’s Life Is At Once Memoir, Biography, Mystery, And Drama, All Centered Around One Remarkable Young Woman Who Cannot Talk Or Read Or Understand Language, But Who Has Touched Almost Everyone She Has Ever Met.<p>at Eighteen Months Hillary Reston, A Happy, Healthy Toddler, Was Struck By A Remarkably High Fever. On The Advice Of Her Doctor, Her Parents, James Reston, Jr., And Denise Leary, Administered Tylenol And Anxiously Waited For The Fever To Subside. Five Days Later It Did, But The Damage Was Done. Over The Course Of The Next Five Months Their Bubbly, Highly Verbal Child Was Radically And Irrevocably Changed. Worse Yet, No Doctor Could Explain What Evil And Still Unidentified Force Had Stolen Hillary’s Ability To Speak Or Understand Language, Hurtled Her Into A Seemingly Endless Cycle Of Seizures, Destroyed Her Kidneys, And Taken Her To The Very Brink Of Death.<p>for Her Parents, Discovering What Had Happened To Their Child And How To Assure The Quality Of Her Life Became An Obse
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- Author
- Reston Jr., James
- Publisher
- New York: Three Rivers Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400082445
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.65 / 5 (45 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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