Inspired to write about David's past because she knew who she was and he didn't. She discovered that the night she met him forty-three years ago. All he knew about himself was that he was adopted at the age of eight and was Jewish, he knew his real name was Stern, and he had only three memories of when he was very little. Christina researched David's history for twenty years and then sat on it for another ten because it was too upsetting to tell David's story to anyone else. Now she feels it is time to tell the story, and all the world can read it.