Every girl wants a sister, but what if that sister isn\'t quite what you expected? A severely mentally and physically challenged baby sister wasn\'t quite on Nicole\'s list. Little sister, Jenny, required the bulk of her Mom\'s attention and Dad gets frustrated from his inability to control or correct the situation. When she is old enough Nicole leaves home, moves away and attempts to start a life of her own, void of her mother, father AND sister. But a phone call from her Mom with whom she hasn\'t spoken with in 10 years, opens the floodgate to her unanswered questions, feelings of guilt and heartbreaks that she thought she boxed up some years ago. This is a heart-warming, and at times heart-wrenching, story that speaks to the heart of every family that has had to deal with any type of mental or physical handicap within their family. Nicole learns the hard way that no matter the distance you put between yourself and those you think you want to hide from, that the genes shared between all concerned creates an invisible thread that binds everyone together. Sometimes it takes a moment or a cause to pull us away from our day-to-day grind to remind us of what\'s important and to evaluate the direction our life is taking. A predictable story, but worthy of the read just the same.