β Scribed by Caro Llewellyn
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Caro Llewellynβs family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her.
Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysis. From him, she learned courage; from her writer mother independence. She fell in love with literature and writers; when she was asked by Salman Rushdie to direct a festival in New York, she felt sheβd been offered the life of her dreams.
Until one day, jogging through Central Park, she lost all feeling in her legs. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Caroβs world shattered. She knew all too well what life in a wheelchair meant, and, faced with her own mortality, that she must look back at her fatherβs exemplary fortitude and grace to find a way forward.
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