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Post by Logan on Feb 12, 2016 17:23:51 GMT -6
The girl’s face shines brightest of the bunch in an old family photo taken around 1926. Anna Kurzweil is 14. She stands in the middle, white lace dress, eyes peering forward, seemingly eager for a life yet lived. Today, looking back at the same photo and knowing her story, she stands there like a novel’s young heroine. Chapters of lost love, far lands, lonely poetry, devotion and mystery not yet written. Kurzweil grew up on a Grandview farm, entered a convent, left to be with her sick mother, worked in a leper colony and traveled the world. For most of this full life, which ended at age 100, she carried the broken heart of a young woman spurned by a beau. Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/local/article60024951.html
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