Parade 04-08

A STORY OF Courage and Hope

In the summer of 2008, Stephanie Nielson, 27, was living a picture-perfect life married to the man

of her dreams and raising four beautiful children. On Aug. 16, that all came crashing down.

“The accident took so much, but over the

last three years, I feel like I have, slowly

but surely, reclaimed from the wreckage

everything that truly matters.”

SUNDAY, APRIL 8 , 2012

© PARADE Publications 2012. All rights reserved.

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Q: Why is the Titanic

still at the bottom of the

ocean? —B. F., San Francisco

A: The ship is so fragile that a full excavation would be too costly and time-consuming, with no promise of success. “It’s easier to go to the moon,” laughs P. H. Nargeolet, director of underwater research for RMS Titanic Inc. Indeed, it took his team two years to stabilize and raise a small, 20-ton piece of the 46,000-ton ship.

Q: Was any memorial

created for the victims?

—Ward, via Facebook

A: Because the passen-gers and crew hailed from many countries, there are a number of memorials around the globe—from a statue honoring the ship’s engineers in South-ampton, England, where the Titanic set sail, to a

PARADE

Q: Is it true that they are

auctioning off items re-

covered from the wreck?

—Louie, Philadelphia

A: Yes—5,500 artifacts, valued at $189 million in 2007 (including jewelry and pieces of the ship), will be sold as one lot in mid-April; the deadline for bids was April 1. The buyer must be court-approved and agree to maintain the collection and display it publicly.

Were Rose and Jack based on

real passengers on the Titanic? —Don G., Hawthorne, Calif.

The characters played by Kate Winslet

and Leonardo DiCaprio (above) in director James Cameron’s

fi lm were inspired by two star-crossed

lovers, but neither was on the ship.

As Cameron has put it, Jack and Rose

are “Romeo and Juliet on the Titanic.”

P Julian Fellowes

P Belfast’s Titanic museum

P Titanic wreckage

Q: Why is the world still fascinated by the Titanic tragedy 100 years later? —A. Evans, Lincoln, Neb.

A: “What makes it so haunting and iconic is that it was a microcosm of the world; whoever you are, there was some-one like you on board,”

Titanic in real life Titanic on the screen

60-foot-tall lighthouse in New York’s South Street Seaport. A new museum in Belfast, where the ship was built, opened in March; it features breathtaking

replicas of the vessel’s exteriors and interiors (like the 10,000-piece Grand Staircase), videos from the site of the wreck, and views of the original shipyard.

says Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, 62, who wrote the new ABC miniseries Titanic (April 14 and 15; check local listings). Drama-tizations can also offer catharsis, he adds: “Disasters allow you to reevaluate life, and that can be sort of marvelous.”

HEAR ASURVIVOR TELL HIS STORYThe recently published book A Rare Titanic Family:The Caldwells’ Story of Survival follows a family’s incredible escape from the sinking ship. Go to Parade.com/caldwell to listen to patriarch Albert (right) as he relived the ordeal shortly before his death in 1977.

Walter Sco� ,s

LOVE STORY

TREASURE

Macy’s co-owner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida (right), refused a lifeboat and were last seen together on the ship’s deck.

Passengers brought along their personal baubles; some have been recovered from the wreckage.

The Strauses are shown as an

elderly couple embracing each

other in bed as they share a last tender moment

together.

The movie’s Heart of the Ocean necklace (left) was fiction, but its creator, Asprey &

Garrard, made a real-life replica that

was auctioned for charity in 1998 for

$2.2 million.

T

PET FANCY

There were reportedly 12 dogs being transported on the Titanic, three of which lived.

The older Rose (played by Gloria

Stuart) has a Pomeranian (left)—the breed of two of the surviving dogs.

THE MUSIC

According to some witnesses, an eight-man band played either “Nearer, My God, to Thee” or “Songe d’Automne” during the ship’s final moments.

A four-man band plays “Nearer,

My God, to Thee”as the ship sinks.

The actor who portrayed the

bandleader is a professional

violinist.

Special TITANIC Edition!AS WE APPROACH THE

100TH ANNIVERSARY OF

THE SINKING ON

APRIL 15, A LOOK BACK

AT THE 1997 FILM,

NOW OUT IN 3-D

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Report money, entertainment, and moreyour guide to health, life,

INTELLIGENCE

Bonnie Rai�

SUNDAY WITH ...

The guitar heroine on taking control, staying sober, and being kissed by an angel

The silver-white streak is natural. I was 24 [when it came in] and you can sort of see it on album covers. By 1981 it was expanding and my red was fading, so I started dyeing my hair [around the streak]. No one else in my family has it. I’ve been told it means you’ve been kissed by an angel.

PARADE You and Alicia Keys performed a tribute to Etta James at the Grammys, singing “A Sunday Kind of Love.” What’s your Sunday kind of love?The part I can talk about in a family magazine? [laughs] Well, a nice leisurely morning, read-ing the papers, then out into the country. I live in Northern California, in Marin County, and there are many beautiful choices of hikes to take. Or my boyfriend and I go for a bike ride. We make dinner at home, watch 60 Minutes and a movie.

She is B. B. King’s favorite slide guitarist. Adele and Bon Iver

perform her hits. In 40 years, Bonnie Raitt has never gone out of fashion. Now the 62-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is releasing her fi rst album in seven years, Slipstream, with covers of two Bob Dylan songs and a sultry, bluesy vibe. “There’s a little something for every-body,” she tells Roger Friedman as she gears up for a tour starting in May.

Slipstream is on your own label, Redwing Records. Why did you put it out yourself?Because I can! I have a pretty solid base of fans. I like the control, and this way if we’re messing up, at least it’s our own fault. I used to say I didn’t want to

talk weasel [deal with the business end].

But I’m really driving my career. It’s not like someone else picks the songs or the looks.

You made it a point to cut out

drinking a while ago.I thought I had to live

that partying lifestyle in order to be authentic, but in fact if you keep it up too long, all you’re going to be is sloppy or dead. I recently had my 25th anniversary of sobriety. I was one of the lucky ones. Seeing Whitney Houston pass away, and Amy Winehouse—everyone smiled at her “Rehab” song, but for me it was heartbreaking to hear her sing that because it just looked like she was on a slippery slope.

Do you like touring?I love it. But when I went through a lot of loss [Raitt’s parents died in 2004 and 2005, and she lost a brother to a long battle with cancer], I took a hiatus. I’m just watching the pace, keeping a nice balance. If my memory serves me well, I’ve already made it. [laughs]

How do you get comfort-able on the road?Our tour bus becomes a second home. Email really helps me stay in touch with friends and save my voice. But I have to remember to get off the laptop and onto the yoga mat.

Who is your boyfriend?We’ve been together seven years now. He’s great, but that’s all I can say. You know, [it’s like] the Sippie Wallace song that goes, “Don’t advertise your man.”

Your red hair and its streak are one of your signatures. Is it natural?

WHEN JANIS JOPLIN AND

JIMI HENDRIX DIED, I SAID, ‘THAT’S

NOT GOING TO BE ME. I’M

SMARTER THAN THAT.’”

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watch them in action at Parade.com/raitt

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A priest who’s losing

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the center of this

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Already the focus of a celeb-fueled ba� le against its R rating (for language)—which was unresolved at press time—this power ful documen-tary exposes bullying as it actually occurred in several schools, making palpable the pain of harassed kids and showing how li� le is done to help them.


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How do you keep going when your perfect life has been shattered? In an excerpt from her new memoir, plane crash survivor

Stephanie Nielson recounts how unshakable faith, and her family’s abiding love, gave her strength on the long road back.

COVER AND OPENING PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUSTIN HACKWORTH

n the summer of 2008,

Stephanie Nielson, 27, was married to the man of her dreams, raising four beautiful

children in Mesa, Ariz., and pu� ing out a popular blog devoted to her life as a wife,

mother, and Mormon. The NieNie Dialogues a� racted millions of followers and—

with its tasteful cra� projects and decorating ideas—the a� ention of the editors of

marthastewart.com. But all that would come crashing down—literally—on Aug. 16,

when the small plane carrying Stephanie, her husband, Christian, and a friend,

pilot Doug Kinneard, hurtled to the ground in St. Johns, Ariz., and exploded in a

ball of � ame. Kinneard died; Christian was burned over 40 percent of his body; and

Stephanie, trapped in the backseat, su� ered burns over 80 percent of hers.

Airli� ed to the Arizona Burn Center in Phoenix, Stephanie spent 11 weeks in a

medically induced coma as doctors worked desperately to keep her alive. Christian

recovered nearby; the couple’s children—Nicholas, Oliver, Jane, and Claire, ranging

in age from nearly 2 to 6—were cared for by two of Stephanie’s sisters, Courtney

and Lucy, in Provo, Utah. That November, Stephanie � nally awoke to the voices of

her mother and her sister Page. This is her story, in her own words.

BlessingsCOUNTING HER


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gently pointed out that if I learned to walk I wouldn’t have to ride.

I nodded and smiled, but seethed inside. Really? I wanted to pull her hair.

WHILE STEPHANIE was progress-

ing physically, emotionally she still

faced huge hurdles. Her physician

made it clear that one condition of her

discharge was that she look at herself

in a mirror. But she simply couldn’t do

it. One late night in December, Chris-

tian came into her room with a hand

mirror and gently urged her to look.

I took a deep breath and turned the mirror over. I started at my ban-daged chest and worked my way up. My neck looked like the skin on my arms, scarred and blotchy. I kept going. I looked at my chin, then my lips. Could those be my lips? They were huge. When I got to my nose, I cried out and put the mirror down. My nose was completely differ-ent, smaller and mis-shapen. I was unrecog-nizable. Unrecognizable. The weight of that

My body was covered in bandages. My fingernails were black. My burned

lips were so swollen I could see them in my peripheral vision. I hadn’t seen my husband in almost four months.

I had been on the brink of death, fl atlining twice in the helicopter on the way to the hospital and a few more times once I’d arrived. I’d been in such critical condition that the doctors performed my fi rst operation in my own bed. Moving me to the OR was too risky.

I had been in surgery as often as my body would allow—every few days to harvest and graft new skin. Second- and third-degree burns covered most of my body. The burned skin was dead and would rot or har-bor dangerous infection if it, and the damaged tissue underneath, wasn’t completely scraped away. It was a moment’s consolation to learn that the doctors had paused before they took the knife to my face, before they carved away the tissue that had defi ned my facial features, before they scraped my beauty away.

I slept restlessly for the next few days, drifting in and out of con-sciousness. Each time I woke, silent and immobile, I stared at the ceil-ing and asked myself: How could this have happened to me? Will I ever move again? What’s going to happen to my family?

Scattered images fl ashed through my mind. A wall of orange fl ames. The pungent smell of burning skin mixed with jet fuel. People shouting above the dull roar of fi re. Dark black smoke, and a leaf above me in the sky.

THAT MONTH Stephanie was trans-

ferred to the University of Utah Burn

Center in Salt Lake City to be near

word settled heavy on my chest.I took another deep breath.

Maybe it wasn’t so bad, I thought. I’m overreacting. Determined, I picked up the mirror again. It was bad. My cheeks were covered with bloody scabs. Half of my left ear was burned completely off.

My face scared me; it would scare anyone. I could never let my children see this. How could they ever love me? My sisters would have to keep my children forever. I would need to be put away somewhere, away from human contact, for the rest of my life. I knew the world didn’t accept peo-ple like me. People were relentlessly critical and rude, or sickeningly con-descending. I never wanted to be seen again. Then I tipped the mirror up. My green eyes looked back at me, and hope rippled through my soul. These were the green eyes I had in-herited from my father, with golden fl ecks that Christian loved. I caught my breath. I saw God in my eyes. I saw reassurance. I even saw a glimpse of triumph. I was still me. Those eyes were mine. The life I saw in them came from God, and that gave me hope for the life of my body.

STILL, STEPHANIE dreaded le� ing

her children see her. In fact, she so

stubbornly refused that one day her

husband and sisters simply showed

up at the hospital with the kids, insist-

ing that Stephanie let them into her

room. Oliver, who was almost 4, went

� rst and seemed unfazed.

Christian smiled. “You’re doing great, Steph.” He nodded encour-agingly, and then went to bring Jane in. She was so excited she let go of his hand and ran into the

room. She took one horrified look at me and then stared at the floor. I couldn’t hold back the tears. “Janie, you’re so grown up! Look how short your

her close-knit family, which includes

eight siblings. Despite constant, excru-

ciating pain, she started physical

therapy, while enduring endless sur-

geries to help heal her burned skin.

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hair is! I love it!”Her eyes were glued to the

fl oor.“I’m sorry I’m different, Jane,”

I said. “I know I don’t look the same, but I promise I’m still your mom. I’ll get better, I’m going to look better. And I still love you so much. I really miss you.”

I stared at the top of her red head and watched the rapid rise and fall of her little chest. She was on the brink of tears, too.

“Janie, will you look at Mommy?”

Finally she looked up, but at Christian. “Can I go now?” she asked.

Christian nodded and hugged her. He turned to me as she walked out of the room. “I love you, Steph,” he whispered.

Out in the hall, we overheard Jane say, “Claire, don’t go in there.” I gasped. It was that bad—I had scared my own baby girl.

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from the hall; Nicholas had fallen

asleep. Once they le� , Stephanie

was alone with her thoughts.

My nurse hung up pictures Claire and Jane had drawn. In one, Jane and I were holding hands. In another, Claire and I played in a garden of yellow daisies. I stared at those happy pictures, but they broke my heart. I asked the nurse to take them down.

The mother in those pictures didn’t exist anymore.

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they’d all been home for a week,

she decided to read to them.

“Claire, let ’s read Stuart

Little,” I suggested. Claire ran to her backpack and pulled out the book.

“You’re going to read, Mom?” Ollie asked as he climbed onto the couch next to me.

Jane wandered in, too. “What are you reading?” she asked Claire.

“Stuart Little,” I answered. “It’s about a cute little mouse, Jane. I think you’d like it.”

She shrugged and sat down on the fl oor by Nicholas.

“Nicholas, you want to read with us?” Nicholas shook his head and looked back at his toys.

“ ‘When Mrs. Frederick C. Little’s second son arrived, everyone noticed he was not much bigger than a mouse,’ ” I began, and Jane looked up.“ ‘The truth of the matter was, the baby looked very much like a mouse in every way.’ ”

Claire giggled. “Look how cute he is with a little hat and shoes.” It was more than Jane could resist. She climbed up on the couch next to Claire. When Jane said something about the doctor examining Stuart Little, even Nicholas climbed on the couch, next to Oliver, so he could see the illustrations, too.

I was sharing the couch with all four of my children. I wanted this moment to last forever. Hoping nothing would break the spell, I read one chapter after another. When we finished

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chapter four and Jane said, “Oh, Mom, one more chapter. Pleeeeease,” I was thrilled.

“Another chapter? I’d like nothing better.”

WITH HER family now re-

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looked forward to one more chal-

lenge. By the one-year anniver-

sary of the crash, she hoped to

have hiked the Y Mountain in

the Wasatch range, which has

a huge white Y on its face for

BYU; Stephanie had climbed it

since childhood. On Aug. 15, the

day before the anniversary, she

was ready.

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“Mommy, who are all those people?” asked Jane, pointing at a crowd gathered at the trail-head. It did seem strange; the trail usually wasn’t this crowded.

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I glance at my chair, with its lumbar support and gently sloping seat. The temptress. I will resist. By day’s end, it feels like I have two safe-deposit boxes attached to my legs. Oddly, though, the rest of my body is energized.

The next day, at lunch with a colleague, I lie to the waiter to explain why I’ll be eating upright. “I have a medical condition.”

I’m learning tricks: Rocking back and forth between my left and right legs helps keep the blood moving. I add a step stool to my workstation so I can elevate one foot at a time. At dinner, my wife is starting to see the benefi ts of my vertical life: “As long as

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The next day, I jury-rig our treadmill so I can balance my lap-top on the front panel. I set it to a

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