“She’s got a way about her, I don’t know what it is, but I know that I can’t live without her.” – Billy Joel    Thursday, May 30, 2024 We watched our eldest child and beautiful daughter, Ella Rae Hewlett, walk across the stage to graduate high school. Candidly, we weren’t quite sure this was going to happen, due to many circumstances and challenges along the way (read on to learn more), and in that sense, it went from being a really neat day that most parents expect and experience with their kids, to truly one of surprise and celebration for our family.       “She’s got a light around her, and everywhere she goes A million dreams of love surround her everywhere.”    We are walking along the beach in California, hundreds of miles from home, suddenly a group of people come running and screaming, “Ella! Oh my gosh, it’s Ella Hewlett!” These are people we have never met, but friends to our daughter, from another school in another city, visiting from Utah. They hug, laugh, take selfies, and it’s over as quickly as it began. “Who are those people?” we ask. “I met them one time