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Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o'clock news - the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body, like he’d been broken at birth. I knew that wasn’t what the term meant, but the image stuck in my mind. Maybe the fact that he was broken drew me to him from the start. It all happened before I was born, and by the time I met Moses and my mom told me all about him, the story was old news and nobody wanted anything to do with him. People love babies, even sick babies. Even crack babies. But babies grow up to be kids, and kids grow up to be teenagers. Nobody wants a messed up teenager. And Moses was messed up. Moses was a law unto himself. But he was also strange and exotic and beautiful. To be with him would change my life in ways I could never have imagined. Maybe I should have stayed away. Maybe I should have listened. My mother warned me. Even Moses warned me. But I didn’t stay away. And so begins a story of pain and promise, of heartache and healing, of life and death. A story of before and after, of new beginnings and never-endings. But most of all . . . a love story. |
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"Ms. Harmon has once again given us an inspiring tale to cherish forever, a story written so elegantly, at times even poetically, that breathes itself into our hearts."
-- Natasha is A Book Junkie
"The lesson Harmon imparts isn't that love heals everything, because it doesn't, but that love can still exist somewhere among the wreckage."
-- Shelli Proffitt Howells, blogger and freelance columnist
"Amy Harmon has written a profound, emotional, moving story that will stay with me for a long time. I can't recommend it enough. This is definitely one to read."
-- The Hopeless Romantics Book Blog
-- Natasha is A Book Junkie
"The lesson Harmon imparts isn't that love heals everything, because it doesn't, but that love can still exist somewhere among the wreckage."
-- Shelli Proffitt Howells, blogger and freelance columnist
"Amy Harmon has written a profound, emotional, moving story that will stay with me for a long time. I can't recommend it enough. This is definitely one to read."
-- The Hopeless Romantics Book Blog
