BALTIMORE -- The other day, Melanie Carlson took her 5-year-old daughter shopping for a bathing suit.
Since they couldn’t find a suit in the first store, they stopped by a second. Then, Carlson drove them to a third store, acutely aware, the whole time, that this mundane afternoon would have been nearly impossible for her to experience less than a year earlier.
“All the little things,” she said, “I’m just very thankful for.”
