This is a letter written the author’s daughter, Kimberly Manno Reott, to the parents of the kindergarten class in Arlington, Va., about her daughter Cecilia. Kim is my daughter and Cecilia, the author’s 6-year-old granddaughter.

“As you all probably have seen, my Cecilia wears glasses (purple, in fact). What you probably haven't heard is the story of why: when Cici was 19 months old, she fell carrying a water glass which shattered into her eye — while we were living overseas in Bogota, Colombia. The damage to her right eye was severe. She spent more than five hours in surgery that night under the care of a miraculous pediatric ophthalmologist in Bogota named Dr. Giovanni Castano. When we medivac-ed her to Johns Hopkins a week later, the doctors at Hopkins said ‘We don’t know who your surgeon was in Bogota, but he did an amazing job putting Cecilia’s eye back together.’

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