Olin Dodson received a telephone call from a stranger in August, 1990, to tell him that a woman, Gloria Maria, with whom he had had a brief relationship in 1978 in Costa Rica, had a message for him. It turned out the message was that he had a twelve year old daughter and she wanted to meet him; she was the ‘Melissa’ of the title. This momentous news arrived at the same time he was thinking of relationships and yearning for a child of his own. The caller, Laura, who became a good friend, mentioned something about a pancreatic disorder; he learned it was cystic fibrosis, an incurable genetic disease that causes lung and digestive problems, in particular, and a truncated life expectancy.
Continued at The Compulsive Reader.
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