''...the work she dedicated herself to confirm for everyone that the twig they had fallen in love with years before had grown into a beautiful tree.'' (Ferrer 131). Pg 100-150

Summary:
     The pages I read were mostly pictures of Sean Ferrer Hepburn and his mother, and his childhood. He wrote about his experience growing up with a celebrity mother. He did not grow up in Hollywood, but in Switzerland. Audrey had stopped accepting films when Sean started attending boarding school and couldn't visit her film sets, and her other son, Lucca started school. She stayed home most of the time. She understood the desire for a father, so she made sure that her kids, Sean and Lucca, remained in contact with their fathers (both children were half-siblings). Audrey's work with UNICEF required that she go to different countries, and after returning from Somalia one day, she started having stomach pains. But soon it was revealed by her doctor that she had an appendix cancer that had been growing for 5 years and just started affecting her health. Just before a big surgery, Audrey revealed for the first time, just how scared she was, and Sean reassured her that they would see through it together. They were successful in keeping her health from the press for a while.

Quote:
''The one thing I dreamed of in my life was to have children of my own. It always boils down to the same thing. Not only receiving love, but wanting desperately to give it...Having children was for her one of the great joys of her life, an opportunity to heal her own childhood.'' (Ferrer 140).

Reaction:
     I chose that quote because it just shows how genuinely kind Audrey was towards kids. As a result of her fatherless childhood, she feels that she had to help other kids. She was a great mother to her own kids, and now she helped kids from poor countries who didn't have what her children had as kids. In a way, helping others also helped her help herself, since her childhood was lacking, like those children. She also felt that she had a 'natural connection' to the children she helped during UNICEF, and continued to help them until her health deteriorated due to cancer. I find that highly unselfish, kind, and wonderful of her to devote most of her time to children that needed help.