With his wife's memory lost due to a traumatic brain injury, Daniel Kilgore volunteered at Magnolia Garden, an assisted living facility, hoping he could learn how to resurrect his wife's fading memories. He was drawn to three residents, Delores Samuels, Mary Hillman, and Sandra Cotton. Why were they placed there, only to be forgotten? Daniel knew they had lives that deserved to be remembered. Mary's husband, George, Sandra's son, Jim, and Delores's son Fred would endure their own emotional epiphany causing them to go to the Gardens for atonement. Would it be in time? His wife's caretaker, Dr. Jane Lincoln, would expose Kilgore's own emotional confliction between his past and their future. He would struggle with the memories of his past and the chance to make new memories.

Title page

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One -

The flower sits among others whose time has come.

Once radiant and regal in appearance, emitting a heavenly sweet fragrance.

Chapter 1 - Magnolia Gardens

Chapter 2 -Â The Beginnings of Guilt

Chapter 3 - Daniel's plan

Chapter 4 - Dolores Samuels' path to Magnolia Gardens

Chapter 5 - Mary Hillman's path to Magnolia Gardens

Chapter 6 - Sandra Cotton's path to Magnolia Gardens

Chapter 7 - Kilgore's friends

Chapter 8 - The Nightmare

Chapter 9 - The Failures

Chapter 10 - Confliction

Chapter 11 - Maternal betrayal

Chapter 12 - Vivian's gift

Part Two -

Its color is gone, petals faded and frail,

it lingers on, forgotten with the coming of a new spring.

-Michael J. Sullivan

Chapter 13 - Kilgore's project

Chapter 14 - The Set-up

Chapter 15 - Friends

Chapter 16 - Confrontation

Chapter 16 - The Meetings

Chapter 18 - Dolores

Chapter 19 - The Story

Chapter 20 - Revelation

Chapter 21 - The Epiphany

Chapter 22 - A Trip to Redemption

Chapter 23 - A Need to Finish

Chapter 24 - Destiny

Chapter 25 - New Beginnings

Chapter 26 - Nine Months Later in the Spring

Epilog

The Author

A Note of Thanks