When Ginger Malenda turned six years old, her mother, Betty, found out that Ginger had an incurable back problem that would be terminal within five to six months. This illness was a result of a birth defect that Ginger had when she was born. Several scenarios in the story are based on the Flood of '94 in Macon, Georgia which flooded I-75. A cat had kittens in the attic of a house just before the flood occurred. The mother cat did not make it. One...