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Funny things, awesome things, painful things, and wonderful things have happened to Karen and the Killilea family in the past eleven years. . . . But there is more laughter than tears . . . and a super-abundance of faith, wisdom, warmth, and friends. --The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) If you are not profoundly stirred; if you are not inspired with new hope and spirit and determination, you are without heart. --Courier-Post

“Funny things, awesome things, painful things, and wonderful things have happened to Karen and the Killilea family in the past eleven years. . . . But there is more laughter than tears . . . and a super-abundance of faith, wisdom, warmth, and friends.” —The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)  

Funny things, awesome things, painful things, and wonderful things have happened to Karen and the Killilea family in the past eleven years. . . . But there is more laughter than tears . . . and a super-abundance of faith, wisdom, warmth, and friends. -The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)

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Marie Killilea is the author of two bestselling books, Karen and With Love from Karen. In 1940, Marie’s daughter Karen was born three months premature, measuring only nine inches and weighing less than two pounds. It would take years for doctors to diagnose her with cerebral palsy, and even more to find proper treatment. When the family was told that they should put her in an asylum and forget about her, which was what many others did at the time, they refused and instead took on the daunting challenge of treating her at home. Confined to a wheelchair since her teens, Karen learned to walk with crutches, write, and even swim, after years of painstaking work. She later became a receptionist at the Trinity Retreat House in Larchmont, New York, where she worked for almost forty years. Marie died in 1991, followed by her husband two years later. Karen resides in an accessible apartment in Larchmont, living a happy life, continuing to be an inspiration to all around her.  

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