FULL CIRCLE, FULL HEART
Oct 25, 2019
4 minutes
BY KATHY WARNES, ASHTABULA, OHIO
ILLUSTRATION BY ELIZABETH ROSEN
HAPPY HEARTS, a history.
When I read that the school that had meant so much to my family was closing, I wanted to do something to make sure it would be remembered—to write the story of the school and its students over the years. But sitting down to work on it, I didn’t know where to begin. I had the school’s blessing to write about it, but no one had asked me to. I wasn’t being paid. I just wanted to do it as a labor of love.
There wasn’t much I wanted to do these days. Not since the accidental death of my daughter, Jill. I, I thought as I started to type.
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