She was a beautiful doelike child, with an intense, graceful fragility.
In their desperate struggle to save their daughter, the Maurices plunged into a medical.
And when her little girl lost some of the words she had acquired, cried inconsolably, and showed no interest in anyone around her, Catherine Maurice took her to doctors who gave her a devastating diagnosis: autism.
But then Anne-Marie began to turn inward.
In her first year, she picked up words, smiled and laughed, and learned to walk.
She was a beautiful doelike child, with an intense, graceful fragility