Five-year-old Hanora Vaughan-Lombardi immigrated with her family from Ireland to America in the aftermath of World War II. Just two years later, Hanora’s life was altered forever by her mother’s untimely death. Hanora was an unconventional child, whose creativity her mother had very early valued and nurtured. For Hanora, reared in a convent from the age of seven, it was her natural gifts, her intrepid and independent spirit—recognized by the nuns who fostered her—that would carry her through. Coming of age in the animating energy of mid-century New York, Hanora eagerly opened the door to the remarkable opportunities that knocked upon her life. Before I Forget is Hanora’s story of what happened next.