As Nancy Dawn Carpenter’s Tiffany Jennifer daughters became sculling crew talents at University of Washington, son Nicholas fought through his life confused every step of way.
A few years after the 9/11 tragedy, the “Attack on America,” September 11, 2001, and what was the beginning of WWIII, after watching televised news reports of the death of one of George W. Bush’s chief lieutenants, who slipped in a bath tub at his home apparently in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and pondering the whole response in Iraq and Afghanistan and ongoing “fight forever” gnawing at her conscience, and even her gut, literally, Nancy, who grew up in Reseda, California, in the San Fernando Valley, and once sold flowers and maps to stars homes along Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, having gotten an ulcer requiring ten
