Alice with Golden Hair

Sometimes being special is more important than being smart... For most kids, eighteen was an exciting age to be, but Alice was not like most kids. Slightly retarded, she had been living in an institution ever since her mother's illness and death years before. Now she was eighteen, and the people at the home thought she could handle a job. Alice didn't think so, especially not a job working in a nursing home with a bunch of old folks. But no one was interested in her opinion, and, frightened and protesting, she suddenly found herself working as a nurse's aide, forced to learn new things faster than she ever had, and faced with new responsibilities that at first appeared almost impossible. Yet Alice soon discovered that what seemed impossible often wasn't, and that although she wasn't as bright as other people, she had another gift that was just as important - a talent for the special kind of loving and caring her patients needed most.