Column | It was the greatest day of my life. But even at 5, I saw the cracks.
- Posted on November 30, 2025
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Column | It was the greatest day of my life. But even at 5, I saw the cracks.

In 1966, Janice Page was 5 and couldn’t perceive the changes about to rock the world. But she knew her mother was odd. An excerpt from “Year of the Water Horse”