* The Jen Network *

Or, Harmony Beth.

What to say about Harmony? She was born last, 3 years after Bill. My parents were 31 when she was born, and the story goes that Mom was six months along before she knew she was pregnant (she was overweight, then, too) and Dad was talking divorce.

Of course, all I remember are the fights and the tears and huddling in the upstairs bedroom, holding Violet's hand as we listened in and tried to figure out which parent we were gonna live without.

But they stayed together because of Harmony. Which, if you'd known her, you'd know that isn't such an amazing and idealistic thing to say. Check out my "shrine" to her here and also check out Violet's Messages to the Passed, as I like to call it, at Stories.com