Two noteworthy events occurred in the state of South Carolina in the dreary winter of 1987. The first, a powerful and extraordinary child was born inside the walls of an ill-prepared hospital during the height of an electrical storm so majestic and detrimental, it marked the history books for a small, rural town tucked into the outer folds of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The second, a loving family moved into their new abode, the eastern half of a run-down twin home on Street 211, a cul-de-sac with a stunning view that overlooked Concepción’s water source, Lake Remembrance.
Spanish explorers who’d migrated west from the Atlantic Ocean had founded Concepción in the early seventeen-hundreds. Eventually they’d lost the land to the British, before America formed its own country. A hidden gem, it
