What would you do if you experienced a loss so devastating that hopelessness threatened your ability to continue as a loving and responsible parent? This loving tribute to a daughter whose promising life was tragically and unexpectedly ended in 1999 at the age of twenty six years on a Baltimore train track, provides the reader with a positive answer to this question. This is an intimate memoir that provides a window into the daughter's innermost thoughts and feelings through her poetry and letters written throughout her short life. The daughter's commentary and observation on her evolving life and foreshadowed death provides a moving glimpse of an insightful bright young woman. The mother's loving and intertwining observations, self revelations and resolve captures in a compelling tapestry the life and death story of the daughter who left a meaningful footprint on the world. Song of Bernadette: A Mother's Memoir of a Daughter, is a guide to others with practical suggestions and tools for working through the grieving process. The story of Bernadette and the story of her mother's loss and recovery are meant to inspire hope and light in a dark and fearful world to readers of all stripes and backgrounds and to help each of us to glean glimpses of insight into the meaning of our own lives.