Unknown (main narrator, possibly Aaron Tracy)

But the diagnosis comes back.

It's just an ear infection.

Antibiotics are prescribed, crisis averted.

Or so they think.

When the vacation ends, Lorena flies to South Africa for a photoshoot.

She has no idea that the doctors were wrong about it being an infection.

It's actually an aggressive brain tumor.

She collapses at the airport from an aneurysm.

At 27, Felicity's daughter has passed away.

Felicity is shattered, and Dahl, he's haunted.

Another brain trauma in someone close to him, his stepdaughter.

This statistical impossibility leaves him stupefied.

According to Felicity's older daughter, Charlotte, Dahl somehow blames himself as if he were the common denominator in some terrible equation, a walking curse.

All he can do now is hold Felicity through her grief.

By the time Lorena passes away, Dahl is a world-renowned children's author.

So let's go back a little bit to before Dahl meets Felicity.

I want to tell you more of the origin story of Dahl making this giant pivot to kids' books.

I mentioned in our last episode that Dahl finally found his voice by changing up his intended audience.

Here's what brought him to that point.

Desperation.