Friends and Fiends

HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE

One misfortunate day in July 1978 my daughter was in an automobile accident. Fortunately, the worst that happened was a broken leg, but that was terrible enough. An ambulance rushed her to the hospital. For five weeks, in and out of bouts of pain, she lay on her back in the children’s ward. No cast was put around her leg. It was stretched by a rope attached to a weight, so that her broken bone would begin to mend correctly and straight. As the days passed, every day that I saw her, she seemed more and more despondent and restless. One day it occurred to me. I thought how nice it would be, if she could see all my friends and fiends. If she would just smile at the sight of them, perhaps her stay would be a bit more pleasant and the pain, a bit more bearable . . .

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