She was adopted, and desperately wanted to find her birth parents. Her side story was quite fascinating for me.

She ended up to be a very rebellious teenager. She turns bulimic and self harms herself. After their break up, Amelia become self destructive.

He eventually finds out, and the two break up. She lies to him and says she has the disorder was well. In the middle of the story, she gets a crush on a boy with OI. Because of this, she always isolated herself from the rest of her family. Amelia was always in the shadows due to the fact that will had osteogensis imperfecta. No more pain and sadness, only peace.Īnother good part of the book was the side stories of Amelia and Marin. The ending actually created somewhat of a peaceful feeling for me. Even as she fell through the ice, she kept positive thoughts. Her life ended on a somewhat happy note (she got to go skating!). Her terminal illness was only getting worse, and I feel she would not want to become any more abnormal and a bigger problem for her family than she was in her current state. Despite all the people saying Willow should not have died, I feel it was the best thing for her. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more.Handle With Care was a fantastic read. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.Įverything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, funny as it seems, perfect. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of 'luckier' parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated-she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. An alternate cover edition can be found here

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