![]() ![]() To Ryn, Henrietta is an enigma: prickly and easily insulted at the slightest suggestion that she can’t do things for herself a brilliant artist capable of producing the most beautiful paintings and sometimes, when Henrietta doesn’t realize she’s letting her guard down, a tender and sensitive woman. Ryn challenges everything, barging right through the walls Henrietta has built to keep others at a distance. Little does Henrietta know that this young woman is about to upend her carefully structured existence. When she falls, almost literally, into Henrietta’s path, she seems like a godsend. She’s young, enthusiastically diving into her first job as a history professor at the local college. Into her life sails Meryn Fleming: out, outspoken, and fiercely political. So Henrietta retreats further and further into her art, where her physical limitations don’t matter. For some reason, the companions never seem to want to stay very long. She hates that she has become increasingly reliant on a series of live-in companions to help her. ![]() Her braces and crutches restrict her, define her, but they also give her independence. Henrietta Cochran has spent nearly forty years dealing with the effects of the polio she contracted in 1945. ![]()
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