Monet’s “Water Lillies”

My co-author in Paris, weeping in front of the huge panels at the L’Orangerie

My feelings about my co-author are profound. I knew her as a “larger than life” mom of the extremely popular and untouchably cool kids in my junior high and high school. My co-author was beautiful, smart, cultured, talented, funny and vibrantly alive. No wonder her children were the most popular — everywhere they went.

I didn’t know my co-author’s story…