it was all she needed to do. With that arm—with the power of connection—she cured the real learning disabilities, which are fear, and shame, and believing that you can’t do something. To this day I am a painfully slow reader—my wife teasingly says she can’t believe I know anything—but I read well enough to have majored in English at Harvard, to have graduated with high honors, and to make part of my living now by writing books, none of which would have happened without Mrs. Eldredge and the loving connection her arm gave me.
