It was World War II. When allied planes began dropping bombs on her hometown of Naples, Italy, fourteen-year-old Teresa Schumacher grabbed the hand of one of her female friends and instinctively headed for the downstairs bathroom in the building where they were both working. The girls huddled together as the explosions continued all around them.
Everyone else in the building died during the raid. Somehow Teresa and the girl survived. For three days they remained buried in rubble; their only nourishment was water from the toilet tank. Eventually, rescuers dug them out from what was left of the bombed-out structure.
Seventy-two years later, Teresa recalled their miraculous survival as though God had a special purpose for her.
"I don't know what made me take the hand of that girl," she said with a characteristic modesty that is often a trait of those with a powerful desire to help others.
As a nutritional consultant and perhaps most notably, as the formulator of Herbal Fib…
Everyone else in the building died during the raid. Somehow Teresa and the girl survived. For three days they remained buried in rubble; their only nourishment was water from the toilet tank. Eventually, rescuers dug them out from what was left of the bombed-out structure.
Seventy-two years later, Teresa recalled their miraculous survival as though God had a special purpose for her.
"I don't know what made me take the hand of that girl," she said with a characteristic modesty that is often a trait of those with a powerful desire to help others.
As a nutritional consultant and perhaps most notably, as the formulator of Herbal Fib…