Baby Tiffany and her brother Michael, 1971.

Tiffany walking in Mom’s shoes.

Tiffany age 3.

Tiffany age 11 after several years of seizures and medication.

Tiffany at age 12, a year before surgery for a brain tumor.

Tiffany, age 13, after brain surgery for a tumor, with mom Charlotte, 1984.

Tiffany, age 14, after her hair had grown back a little bit.

Tiffany during the summer Mom got custody of her again, 1984.

Thanksgiving at Mom and Frank's. She looks thin and her beautiful hair is gone, never to return, but she's alive.

At 15 Tiffany played for Bluejays girls softball in Sierra Madre, CA.

Tiffany's two best girlfriends from school.

She loved to dance! On stage after a performance at Pasadena's Basement Theater where we volunteered.

By age 18, she had gained weight and was looking healthy.

Mom and Tiffany with a borrowed Polaroid camera.

Tiffany with her dad and grandpa. She is about 24 here.

Christmas with brother Michael, sister-in-law Veronique, and brother's friend Cory, about 1992.

Tiffany with our friend Margaret and her mom Mabel. Mabel was a saint. Nobody could pray like Mabel. We visited them in Santa Barbara in about 1995.

Tiffany loved being Aunt Tiffy when baby Jeremy arrived, April 1995.

Tiffany looks mildly amused. Charlotte looks perplexed.

Tiffany with brother Michael, nephew Jeremy, mom Charlotte, and sister-in-law Veronique.

Tiffany loved to dress up. Halloween was her favorite holiday.

Birthdays made her really happy because she loved being treated like a really special person!

Dressed up as a cowgirl. Kelly took this photo.

Tiffany made her dress for mom Charlotte's wedding in 1996. Her good friend Greta came to share the day with us.

Tiffany and mom Charlotte at the wedding. They each made their own dresses.

At Halloween, with her thin hair, she dressed as Nosferatu and won the "First Place" prize in the Sierra Madre costume parade that year.

She was as golden as a sunflower. Here she is in her early twenties.

Tiffany and mom, when she was about 30.

Tiffany sits on the edge of a mirror pool in front of Pasadena City College in 2002. She's 31.

Halloween at First Street Art Center in Claremont, CA, dressed as a queen with Stephanie, one of the art teacher artists.

Not Halloween this time. She's dress for the "Hurray for Hollywood" party at Ability First in Pasadena.

One of the last Halloween's when she was able to dress up. She is Snow White. Mom sewed her costume.

Tiffany's 40th birthday party at Bean Town, her favorite coffee bar and hangout in Sierra Madre. She introduced her family to all her friends there.

Her 42nd and last birthday.

Tiffany walks a labyrinth in the desert in Ridgecrest with the black basalt Mother stone in the foreground, at the center of the labyrinth.

One of her favorite spots was the Kersting Court Starbucks in Sierra Madre at a sidewalk table.

Mom Charlotte and Tiffany take a night time swim in Grandma's pool in the Ridgecrest desert.

Tiffany decked out in her Christmas santa pin and other jewels. She was a sparkling shining star herself.

One fall from her bike gave her a broken ankle. She wore her bright pink cast proudly.

Hot tubbing at New Years in her brother Michael's hot tub with Michael and Tiffany's two nieces Valerie and Miranda.

Tiffany in her ubiquitous tie-dye, this time in the L.A. County Arboretum in Arcadia, CA.

Her beautiful, bejeweled hands. See her ID bracelet on the right hand, under the beaded bracelet. It says "epilepsy" on the back.