- HOST JACKIE TANTILLO -She Was A Survivor-She Was My Hero With Guest Hannah Brooks. Looking Back At S2E3 32:19
Hannah refers to her mother as a saint and her hero. As a child, my guest, remembers her mother’s great sense of humor, dancing and listening to music, learning about bug and butterflies and the significance of faith.
Rebecca, Hannah’s mother endured much pain and sorrow as a young girl fleeing the Nazi’s in Europe. At 17, Rebecca, on her own, immigrated to America with her younger brother.
The definition of the word ‘saudade’ – a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one cares for and/or loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again.”
My guest understands this feeling completely. She hangs onto the good memories and has passed them onto her own daughter Rebecca, who’s named after her mother.
Dr. Hannah Brooks is a board certified surgeon, breast cancer specialist and geneticist and now practices upstate New York.
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