They say ‘The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away’, and in my life I had one beautiful, yet sad, example of that. No, this is not a piece about religion, but about life’s strange ways… — On Sunday morning, 13 February 1983, the phone in our hallway rang, and my father answered. My bedroom was closest to the phone, and since we were just back from church, I was in there, taking off my Sunday dress and getting into something more casual. …