Status Updates From HarperCollins Before Dorothy.

494 Aunty Nell finally encouraged Auntie Em to turn her prairie journal into a book about those hard years.

485 They all move to California to be with sister Nell and her family.

488 Life before Dorothy was an adventure. Live after was a whirlwind. And what joy she blew into our hearts.

492 Seven years passed before the rain returns to Kansas and the prairie bloomed, once again, in all the colors of the rainbow. It would be many more years before I returned to finally see for myself…

434 Leo shook his head, unable to meet Emily’s eye. “I was afraid to be a father. As I tell you, I am forever a boy. I want the pleasure of your sister, not the responsibility of a child.”

465 Home was wherever she wanted to be most, right now, that was here, in the hospital, beside dear Dorothy.

466 (Adelaide) “I don’t mean material things. I mean what you have with Henry and Dorothy. A family. Love.”