![]() Phoebe is in love with Robert, who also has Down syndrome, and wants to get married and live in a group home, but Caroline is scared to let Phoebe live an independent life.ĭavid considers making a confession to Norah about Phoebe but can't bear to go through with it. Norah and David are divorced and Paul is traveling and studying music in France with his own girlfriend. David blames the affair on himself and continues to spend more and more time in his darkroom with his photographs of Phoebe. While on vacation in Aruba, Norah has a love affair with Howard, who is also married with children at home. Norah simply wants her son to be happy, while David pushes Paul to follow a career path that will guarantee stability, money, and success. David and Norah live almost completely separate lives and differ on what Paul should do when he's older. Paul is becoming an accomplished guitarist and dreams of attending Juilliard. Caroline decides not to contact David again, worried he might unknowingly hurt Phoebe. David sends Caroline a letter, asking her to let him meet Phoebe and allow her to know her twin brother, Paul. ![]() Paul and Phoebe are now thirteen, and Caroline and Al have been married five years. Caroline realizes his genuine love for her and fatherly intentions for Phoebe. Al helps Caroline take her to the hospital and steps in when a nurse's comment about Phoebe's condition outrages Caroline. Phoebe is stung by a bee while at play and has a serious allergic reaction. She continues to decline, although out of doubts for his fatherly love for Phoebe rather than his romantic intentions toward her. Caroline and the Upside Down Society, a group of other parents of Down syndrome children, petition the school system to mainstream their children in public school.Īl still visits Caroline and has proposed to her twice. In Pittsburgh, Phoebe is growing up a healthy child despite David's negative predictions at her birth about her mental disabilities. Norah drinks secretly and becomes overprotective of Paul. He immerses himself in his work and basically leaves the family, only coming back into their lives to complain about Paul. David is now an aspiring photographer with his own darkroom, where he keeps Phoebe's pictures and Caroline's letters locked away. Six years later, the distance between the Henrys has increased. He and Caroline begin regular visits, and romance begins to bloom between them. Meanwhile, Al, the truck driver who assisted Caroline on the night of Phoebe's birth, discovers her whereabouts. David sends money to Caroline and makes a half-hearted attempt to find out where Caroline and Phoebe live. Caroline claims that Phoebe is her daughter and tells a half-true story of running away from Phoebe's father because he wanted to institutionalize Phoebe.Ĭaroline sends letters and pictures of Phoebe to David. Meanwhile, Caroline begins working for Dorothy "Doro" March as a private nurse for her father, Leo. They move to a new home but continue to find it difficult to romantically connect. The "death" of their daughter has caused a rift in David and Norah's marriage. Caroline leaves for Pittsburgh to make a fresh start with Phoebe. ![]() After hearing that Caroline had kept Phoebe rather than take her to the institution, David bids her to do what she thinks is right. Meanwhile, David tells Norah that their daughter died at birth. She is picked up by a truck driver, Al Simpson, who drives them to Caroline's home. While Caroline is at the store, her car runs out of gas and she is stranded in the snow with Phoebe. She decides to keep and raise the baby, who is named Phoebe. ![]() David, recalling the possibility of a heart defect and early death (which his younger sister June had had dying at the young age of twelve) and decides that the baby girl will be placed in an institution.Ĭaroline was given the baby to take to the institution, but simply didn't like the conditions. Their first child, a boy they name Paul, is born a healthy perfect child, but when the second baby is born, Phoebe, David notices she has Down syndrome. David Henry is forced to deliver his wife Norah's twins with the help of a nurse, Caroline Gill. ![]()
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