“Hope had been in the NICU for a week before she was named. The name her parents had picked out was Allison – Allegra and Allison, for nauseating twin symmetry – but after all that transpired, they changed their minds and decided to call her Hope, no explanation needed. She was a survivor, an underdog who had prevailed;.”

“Hope had been in the NICU for a week before she was named. The name her parents had picked out was Allison – Allegra and Allison, for nauseating twin symmetry – but after all that transpired, they changed their minds and decided to call her Hope, no explanation needed. She was a survivor, an underdog who had prevailed;.”

— Elin Hilderbrand