I'll See You Again - audiobook

In this wonderful and courageous (Jeannette Walls) memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, andslowly, painfully, and miraculouslyher cautious return to hope and love.Until the horrific car accident on New Yorks Taconic State Parkway that took the lives of her three beloved young daughters, Jackie Hance was an ordinary Long Island mom, fulfilled by the joyful chaos of a household bustling with life and chatter and love. After the tragedy, she was The Taconic Mom, whose unimaginable loss embodied every parents worst nightmare. Suddenly, her lifelong Catholic faith no longer explained the world. Her marriage to her husband, Warren, was ravaged by wrenching grief and recrimination. Unable to cope with the unfathomable, she reinvented reality each night so that she awoke each morning having forgotten the heartbreaking facts: that Emma, age 8; Alyson, age 7; and Katie, age 5, were gone forever. They were killed in a minivan driven by their aunt, Jackies sister-in-law, Diane Schuler, while returning from a camping weekend on a sunny July morning. Ill See You Again chronicles the day Jackie received the traumatizing phone call that defied all understanding, and the numbed and torturous events that followedincluding the devastating medical findings that shattered Jackie to the core and shocked America. But this profoundly honest account is also the story of how a tight-knit community rallied around the Hances, providing the courage and strength for them to move forward. Its a story of forgiveness, hope, and rebirth, as Jackie and Warren struggle to rediscover the possibility of joy by welcoming their fourth daughter, Kasey Rose Hance. The story that Jackie Hance shares for the first time will touch your heart and warm you to the power of love and hope.