Fortunate Son
A Novel
Chapter One
THOMAS BEERMAN was born with a hole in his lung. Because of this
birth defect, he spent the first six months of his life in the
intensive care unit at Helmutt-Briggs, a hospital in West Los
Angeles. The doctors told his mother, Branwyn, that most likely he
would not survive.
"Newborns with this kind of disorder, removed from the physical love
of their mothers, often wither," kind-eyed Dr. Mason Settler told
her.
So she came to the hospital every day after work and watched over
her son from six to eleven. She couldn't touch him because he was
kept in a glass-enclosed, germ-free environment. But they stared
into each other's eyes for hours every day.
Branwyn would read to the little boy and talk to him through the
night after her shift at Ethel's Florist Shop.
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