Joan Mullen was Joan Atkinson, a little girl almost 5 years old, when in 1946 her mother brought her third child, baby Bill, home from the hospital.
Joan Mullen was Joan Atkinson, a little girl almost 5 years old, when in 1946 her mother brought her third child, baby Bill, home from the hospital. She still remembers her initial disappointment. She had been hoping for a little sister because she already had a little brother.
Her disappointment was only fleeting. Little Bill was absolutely lovable, and she became like a second mother to him. But it would not have occurred to her in a million years that she would live to see a cause for sainthood opened for him.
