LET'S MAKE A MIRACLE

FRANK: I agreed to visit Florida.

Visit.

I'd like everybody to remember that word.

Because apparently nobody else did.

Let's Make a Miracle picks up after Do We STAY/GO? and takes us south, where the people Rose and I had begun meeting turn out to be considerably more complicated than advertised.

Especially Ida.

Actually, mostly Ida.

What begins as a trip becomes something larger—a collision of friendships, families, old histories, new possibilities and enough unexpected characters to make a reasonable person reconsider the advantages of spending retirement alone in a basement.

There are people here who will drive you crazy.

There are also people who will show up when you need them.

Frequently they're the same people.

That's something I've started learning about this stage of life. The best parts aren't necessarily the things you planned. Sometimes they're the people you didn't expect to meet, the places you didn't expect to go and the doors you were absolutely certain you weren't going to open.

And sometimes a miracle isn't some enormous impossible event.

Sometimes it's discovering that your life still has room to surprise you.

Although if Ida Katz-Liebowitz is involved?

I'd check the fine print.