In childhood, Margaret Rose Moore—a girl born to a family of Irish emigrants in Brooklyn—was nicknamed “Milly-Meggie” for her restless, cheerful nature. But life didn’t spare Meggie: at sixteen, misfortune knocked at the door, and she had to quit school and devote herself entirely to the home, her father, and her newborn brother. When Meggie finally met Claude, the love of her life, he turned out to be nothing like the person with whom you can simply be happy. Yet “Milly-Meggie” always drew strength from being useful to others. So, like a stubborn reed in the wind, she will never give in to the blows of fate.