Rena Lipiner Katz grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust believing that the price of her parents' survival and her own birth was a life of sorrow and guilt. Lipiner Katz explores how her parents' childhood trauma affected her emotionally and physiologically. Determined to forge a life separate from the legacy of the Holocaust, Lipiner Katz had to first understand how her parents' experiences during the war impacted her world view, her relationships, and the myriad of choices she made as a child, wife, mother, and wife again. Through her journey as a second-generation Holocaust survivor she ultimately found a life that is free of inherited pain and full of meaning and love