Mom had something else in common with Mrs. Kennedy: they both had come home empty-handed from the maternity ward. Twice. In 1955, the year I was born, Jackie miscarried a boy and, a year later, delivered a stillborn little girl the couple had planned to name Arabella. A few years after that, Mom lost two little girls, the first stillborn, the other an infant named Dorothy who lived for only twenty-four hours.
