I'll See You Again
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4.5 • 578 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In this “wonderful and courageous” (Jeannette Walls) memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despair, and—slowly, painfully, and miraculously—her cautious return to hope and love.
Until the horrific car accident on New York State’s Taconic 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 parent’s worst nightmare. Suddenly, her life-long Catholic faith no longer explained the world. Her marriage to her husband, Warren, was ravaged by wrenching grief and recrimination. And her mind, unable to cope with the unfathomable, reinvented reality each night, so she awoke each morning having forgotten the heartbreaking facts: that Emma, age eight; Alyson, age seven; and Katie, age five, were gone forever. They were killed in a minivan driven by their aunt, Jackie’s sister-in-law, Diane Schuler, while returning from a camping weekend on a sunny July morning.
I’ll See You Again chronicles the day Jackie received the traumatizing phone call that defied all understanding, and the numbed and torturous events that followed—including 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. It’s 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.
Customer Reviews
I’ll see you again! A must read
There are no crimes in families that cannot not be forgiven, except this one! We all have burdens to bear in life but what do you do when every mother’s biggest nightmare comes true. I identified with the woman’s pain and cried during many parts of the book. I wish I had the privilege to know Jackie, she’s an amazing loving person who manages to overcome a tragedy and turn it around to make it something beautiful. This book is about true friendship, family and forgiveness. All I can say how lucky the three girls were to have such an amazing mother and father. Warren is also an amazing person one day I hope to meet.
Most of us know that not all of us are lucky to be brought up in such a loving family, surrounded by good friends and neighbors. Childhood trauma is still not where it should be and it’s time we paid attention. Most don’t know about family scapegoating, I was the family scapegoat and was emotionally rejected by my entire family and endured yrs of emotional abuse until i went no contact with my entire family. I know emotional pain very well. I almost didn’t survive it but for some reason I’m still here. Jackie was an inspiration to me and I want to tell her how lucky she is to have friends to see her through. Some of us have no one. She taught me to forgive, if she can, I can.
Diane suffered a traumatic childhood being abandoned by her mother. She turned into a super woman who just couldn’t endure it any longer and she couldn’t be found out that she wasn’t perfect after all. Not making excuses, there are none.
We are in the Stone Age when it comes to childhood trauma. We must help these poor children who were not fortunate enough to grow up in loving homes. My hope is one day that the mental health community realizes this so tragedies such as this no longer happen.
There is one thing i wish the book did make very clear and that was the last conversation Diane and Warren had that lasted 8 minutes long. I feel that would have cleared things up for all of us who really wanted to know what happened to Diane that morning.
Moving
Incredible insight into depths of pain that come with loss.
Inspiring
This story is simply heartbreaking. The real and raw emotion is a lot to take in but this book honors the girls the way it was meant to, and that's all that matters.