A girl of adventure and fun, Lenora was often doing what girls should not be doing. She’d been caught climbing trees, smoking and drinking alcohol since her early teens. She was the “wild one” of the pack of children in her family.
Her mother longed for her to be a “normal girl,” but Lenora preferred pants to dresses and smoking to sipping tea. She fought hard against society’s notion of what kind of woman she should be. She begged her parents to let her go to college where she earned a degree in literature.
On the day this photo was taken she was at the lake house with her family. Her father had long given up the idea of getting a proper picture of her sitting on a bench in a park in long, ankle-covering skirt. Instead, her father lovingly said, “Let me take your picture L, you are beautiful!”
Lenora quickly jumped up, climbed up the tree and posed. She was never so comfortable as she was in her skin that day.
Written by Julia Roberts, Kidneys and Eyes and co-founder of SupportforSpecialNeeds.com
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