![]() ![]() Both experiences gave her an ability to deal with others’ illnesses and losses differently than she previously could. She experienced this herself shortly after “Orphan Train” was finished, when she was diagnosed with cancer and lost her mother. “A gift of difficulties, of times that we have been through trials, is that it gives you a window into other people and gives a way to connect,” Kline observed. ![]() ![]() Similar traumas are what forged a bond between the novel’s main character, Niamh (who later goes by the names Dorothy and Vivian), an older woman who rode the orphan train as a girl, and a modern-day foster teen, Molly. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have found themselves on the orphan trains to begin with. One experience all riders shared was trauma. ![]()
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