"As tender, touching and unforgettable as sunshine." "The hauntingly beautiful true story of a dying young girl's extraordinary legacy of love..." She was fifteen years old when her difficulty in walking up hills was diagnosed as bone cancer. Her monther and father were struggling with their own separation when the diagnosis was made. Her older sister had left home. The doctors told Ellen she had between six months and two years left to live... Ellen: A Short Life Long Remembered, is a mother's intimate memoir of a death that taught a trubled family how to love. Ellen has somthing to teach you about loving, too.